The former head of the Borders Unit at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest intergovernmental security organisation, says “successive governments have dismantled the layered mosaic of border security” which once protected Britain’s coast.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the State of Texas are fighting it out at the Fifth Circuit. Texas House Bill 11 is being challenged by open border advocates who say that it improperly targets illegal alien shelters and those who rent to illegal aliens. Oral argument is being conducted Wednesday.
Bus station employees are reporting that illegal immigrants continue pour into the Texas border town of Laredo. They have seen a holding center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carrying between 20 and 40 undocumented women during at least five bus trips.
Open-borders, pro-amnesty advocates have been waging a war on the legitimacy of the Border Patrol for years, but responses to government document requests on charge and conviction rates among agents show actual corruption levels do not match the critical rhetoric.
Reuters reports that Mexican officials plan to “defend free trade with the United States by using border security and immigration policy to gain leverage in talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump after he takes office next month.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s open borders, pro-amnesty lobbying group emailed followers on Tuesday asking them to “Show your love for the immigrant community by recording a quick message today.” It does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants.
A federal district court judge in Arizona has upheld two identity theft laws used to prosecute illegal aliens in employment raids by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
A report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed a massive surge in the numbers of illegal border crossings and apprehensions in the months leading up to the November 8 Presidential Election.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must continue to use National Guard aviation assets funded through Operation Phalanx.
Ann Coulter, author and “goddess of the online right” according to SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, joined Breitbart News Daily for a special Thanksgiving discussion on immigration, the new Trump cabinet, building the wall, the “existential threat” of open-borders globalism, and how Donald Trump is going to save “the last Christian country on Earth.”
McALLEN, Texas — The Associated Press continues to push discredited claims of a safe border and half-truths about the existing fence in its latest attempt to discredit the building of a wall.
A Texas congressman visited with Border Patrol agents in Laredo and witnessed the apprehension of five illegal immigrants plus the seizure of more than 350 pounds of drugs.
A federal judge in Arizona has ordered federal officials to give illegal aliens in Arizona’s Tucson Sector better facilities while detained.
An illegal immigrant is facing federal charges after re-entering the country despite being deported for drunk driving and killing an Alabama man.
An illegal alien, represented by a George Soros-funded law firm, has filed a lawsuit to fight the judicial action blocking illegal aliens from receiving benefits under President Obama’s executive amnesty program. The injunction was left standing by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, and the Bureau of Prisons to force the production of records that demonstrate accurate illegal alien crime rates.
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made the highest-profile human trafficking bust in the Lone Star State’s history on Thursday afternoon. Backpage.com is set to be shutdown as a result. Paxton said that the victims that are sex trafficked include both voluntary and involuntary participants. The head of the organization, Carl Ferrer, has been arrested at a Houston airport.
A Guatemalan who admitted he drank a small bottle of whiskey, 12 beers, and used cocaine three times during the 18 hours before he failed to stop for a red light, has been arrested in Phoenix for killing a six-year-old child.
The United States Supreme Court has denied President Obama’s request to rehear the executive amnesty case.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The Crescent City is a “magnet” for illegal immigrants, said Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry who lambasted the City’s ‘sanctuary’ policies on Capitol Hill.
HOUSTON, Texas — 12 suspected illegal aliens have been arrested during a raid at a stash house.
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the status of immigration legislation on Capitol Hill and the policies of GOP nominee Donald Trump.
U.S. Border Patrol agents working in south Texas discovered $7 million-worth of methamphetamine being smuggled through a checkpoint.
U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-TX) told members of the Downtown Houston Pachyderm Club there really is no way to vet Syrian refugees to make certain they are not a threat.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Senior Fellow and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton delved into Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents joined with Royal Canadian Mounties to stop five Polish citizens from illegally entering the United States.
PHOENIX, Arizona — Hours after returning to the United States from Mexico, where he met with that country’s president, GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump doubled down on his America-first immigration plan with a central focus on security for the country.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the marine unit at the Eagle Pass, Texas, station rescued a juvenile male from Honduras who was apparently drowning in the Rio Grande River.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stayed “calm, focused, and determined” as protesters repeatedly tried to disrupt a rally held in Austin, Texas, Tuesday night, one state official said. Protesters appeared to be acting in desperation.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported sex offender shortly after he re-entered the United States illegally in southern California early Friday morning.
Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, joined a town hall on terrorism Tuesday evening, hosted by Sean Hannity of Fox News. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was also in attendance.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission put the Obama Administration on notice with regard to requirements that must be met before Syrian refugees are resettled in the Lone Star State. This includes the prerequisite that the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement certify that “each refugee does not pose a security threat” to people of Texas.
A Hispanic Green Party official had a Breitbart Texas reporter thrown out of a reception because some local open-borders, pro-amnesty, Hispanic activists felt “threatened by Breitbart’s presence.” The official said they needed a “safe place.”
From Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard: The national union that represents 7,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claims that House Speaker Paul Ryan is playing a role in the national immigration crisis by not voicing strong support for law enforcement’s
A man suspected of being an illegal alien has been arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault. His victim is reported to be a seven-year-old girl.
Texas Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, charges that the refusal to mention terrorism in speeches at the Democratic National Convention is a “complete and utter failure of responsibility by Hillary Clinton, her party, and her hand picked surrogates.”
Three bipartisan U.S. senators, including Texas senator John Cornyn, have introduced the Remedies for Refusal of Repatriation Act. “Casey’s Law” is named for a young woman who was murdered by a Haitian criminal illegal alien. He was in the country because he had not been deported after he was released from prison.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas, risked their lives by jumping into the Rio Grande River to rescue four illegal aliens who nearly drowned crossing from Mexico. Though heavily unreported, Border Patrol agents frequently put their lives at risk to rescue illegal aliens who have put themselves in dangerous situations.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director, Colonel Steve McCraw, told a Texas House committee that only two of Texas’ fourteen border counties are under “operational control.” No Texas border counties have been raised to the highest security level of “substantial control.”
The federal government filed a petition for rehearing in the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to take the extraordinary move and grant a rehearing to decide the executive amnesty case when there are nine justices present.
