Immigrants - Page 5

A Texas sheriff tasked with recovering the bodies of illegal immigrants who die while being smuggled around a checkpoint 80 miles from the Mexican border says the “false compassion” of open borders is to blame. This year, his deputies recovered the decomposing bodies or skeletal remains of more than 30 who were left to die by their smugglers.

President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy towards adult migrants who bring children with them has been temporarily stopped by a lack of resources, according to White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. 

Democrats need to compromise on migration politics or they will end up in a much weaker position in 2020, says Andrew Sullivan, who is a prominent center-left intellectual with a column in New York magazine.

The Democrats’ obstructionism in the immigration debate will hurt them in the 2018 midterm elections, says House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s fading amnesty bill could be revived if President Donald Trump to publicly touts his support for the measure, says press reporters and Tweets. 

House Speaker is delaying the vote on his amnesty bill from Thursday to Friday, amid growing evidence that tens of GOP legislators prefer the bill drafted by Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte.

President Barack Obama’s immigration agency allowed migrant youths as young as 14 to be abused, tied up, left naked in solitary confinement, and denied health treatment at a juvenile detention center in Virginia in 2015 and 2016, says a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Latino migrant.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) claimed in an interview Saturday that the Obama administration tried to cover up the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States’ southern border.

The approaching summer heat in South Texas is causing an increase in demand for Border Patrol search and rescue resources. Agents in the Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio Sectors are seeing more situations where migrants are placed in danger by cartel-connected human smugglers.

So-called “moderate” Republicans have rejected proposals to combine their amnesty with popular immigration reforms, including greater use of E-Verify, and border-law changes to reduce migration of people from Central America, says a report in Politico.

A Manhattan federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama halted the deportation of an illegal immigrant pizza deliveryman in New York on Saturday.

President Donald Trump ripped Democrats on Tuesday for their partisan attempt to blame his administration for old photos of caged illegal immigrant children at the border.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant’s lifeless body in the Rio Grande River earlier this month. Medical examiners and the Missing Migrant Project teamed up and identified the migrants as a Bangladeshi national who attempted to illegally enter

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector saved the life of an illegal immigrant who human smugglers abandoned in Brooks County, Texas. Within days, agents recovered the remains of two other migrants who were not as fortunate.

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services are visiting four military bases to see if they can be used to house young migrants while their parents’ deportation and asylum cases are processed, according to The Hill. 

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo Sector saved the lives of nearly 700 illegal immigrants this fiscal year while being smuggled into the U.S.

The death toll of illegal immigrants abandoned by human smugglers in South Texas continues to rise with the this week’s discovery of two sets of human remains. Border Patrol agents and sheriff’s deputies recovered the remains of the deceased migrants in two counties approximately 80 miles from the Texas border with Mexico.

President Trump is ending temporary amnesty for about 50,000 Honduran nationals who have been allowed to stay in the United States since 1999.

Police in Sarasota, Florida, arrested an illegal immigrant from El Salvador after a video showed him crashing his car into a motorcycle rider in an alleged road rage incident. Immigration officers placed a detainer on the suspect who is now charged with aggravated battery and driving without a valid license.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is temporarily shutting down a taxpayer-funded advice service for the huge numbers of illegal migrants who drive down blue-collar wages throughout the United States, according to the Washington Post.

Celebrated evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham has blasted late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel for his mockery of first lady Melania Trump’s accent, saying the comedian was “out of line.”

An illegal alien has been arrested in connection with the first-degree murder of a teenager girl after she was shot three times at a home in Arizona.

An illegal alien was arrested and charged in Aspen Hill, Maryland, after allegedly kicking and slamming his pregnant girlfriends’ head up against a wall in an attempt to kill her baby.

A previously deported illegal alien allegedly broke into a home in Raleigh, North Carolina, kidnapped a child, and sexually assaulted her.

Police in Brest, France have arrested eight illegal immigrants after locals reported having their cellphone stolen after taking up a stranger’s offer of ‘free hugs’.

The United States population is set to surpass 400 million by the year 2060 – mostly because of immigration, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

Pro-open borders Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) plan to give amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens in exchange for three years of funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked yet again in the Senate on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump was only scheduled to arrive Tuesday for his first visit to California as president. But the so-called “Resistance” had already been protesting since Monday.

The sanctuary state of California — which protects criminal illegal aliens from deportation — is responsible for releasing offenders back into the public who have been convicted of child sex crimes, domestic abuse, and child abuse.

An illegal alien from Mexico, arrested for allegedly causing a fatal hit-and-run accident, will be free to leave prison should he pay his $25,000 bond, as the Denver Sheriff’s Department remains committed to their “sanctuary city” policy.

A report by the Cato Institute released on February 26 reveals that illegal immigrants are much more likely to commit violent crimes than immigrants who follow the law to get here. Cato primarily provides written analysis on the portion of the report showing illegal immigrants less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.

Three members of the violent, El Salvadorian MS-13 gang laughed and giggled in court this week as they stood trial for allegedly brutally murdering two teenage girls in Brentwood, New York.

The U.S. News & World Report has named California the worst state for “quality of life,” largely due to the high cost of living.

An illegal alien shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arrested after allegedly threatening a school shooting in upstate New York.

The Washington Post has brought first lady Melania Trump’s legal immigrant parents into the discourse on immigration, using their arrival as a defense of mass immigration to the United States.

More than 20 refugee resettlement offices across the United States will close as President Trump’s administration cuts down on the costly, taxpayer-funded process of mass relocating foreign refugees across the country.