law and order

According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol is applying a legal process known as Expedited Removal on a broad scale along the southwest border. The agency is now returning migrants to Mexico soon after apprehension. The source told Breitbart Texas, “’Catch and Release’ is over, it’s ‘Catch and Return now.’”

Virginia is being sued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) over Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s enforcement of a measure aimed at culling noncitizens from the voter rolls — a law introduced by former Gov. Tim Kaine (D), which the DOJ previously approved.

As Election Day nears, one issue stands out as a potential game-changer: the significance of crime in key swing states, which may just be the catalyst that tips the election toward Donald Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris expressed support for marijuana legalization, noting that “people should not be” jailed “for smoking weed,” despite her record of having overseen nearly 2,000 convictions for marijuana-related offenses.

Vice President Kamala Harris called for the removal of police officers from schools in 2019 to address racial disparities in student discipline, according to remarks she made during her first presidential campaign.

Criminals being set free in a bid to reduce overcrowding at a prison are reoffending and being returned to custody, an inspection report released Wednesday reveals.

Attorneys for Hunter Biden reportedly filed a motion on Monday requesting a “new trial on all counts,” then withdrew the request.

Former President Donald Trump told podcaster Tim Pool that he is giving “very serious consideration” to pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if elected president in November.

New York County Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday for a second time former President Donald Trump violated his gag order during the trial, holding him in criminal contempt and threatening him with jail time for any further infractions.

UFC fighter Renato Moicano was so jazzed after winning his fight at UFC Vegas 85 that he could not hide his enthusiasm for America.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) discussed being carjacked in D.C. and stated that D.C. should increase its penalties for carjacking while noting that he was one of the minority of

The Florida Police Benevolent Association formally endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his presidential bid on Monday, deeming him as someone who will “make public safety a top priority in the White House.”

A report published on Monday claimed that New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appeared hobnobbing at a political event in a video alongside “Harry” Lu Jianwang, arrested last week on federal charges for allegedly running an illegal Chinese police station in New York City.

A San Francisco Target store has put its merchandise on lockdown as the city remains unable to curb its shoplifting crisis.

“This is miscarriage of justice, an outrageous violation of democratic norms and a travesty for our politics at home and reputation abroad,” Cox said.

Pennsylvania Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman is boasting about his support from pro-defund the police Hollywood celebrities one week away from midterm elections.

Kathy Salvi, Republican nominee to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that her opponent, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), has been “on the wrong side” of many political issues, ranging from the “defund the police” campaign to border security.

The Nevada Police Union said its members “overwhelmingly” have “no confidence” in Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak.

A cemetery just outside the city of Philadelphia revealed that 90 percent of new burials are victims of the city’s burgeoning violent gun crime.

A court in Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia sentenced a Saudi woman and adherent of Shia Islam to 34 years in prison on Monday for using her personal Twitter account to “create public turmoil and destabilize civil and national security” by re-Tweeting posts demanding the Saudi government release women’s rights activists from prison, Turkey’s Hürriyet newspaper reported on Wednesday.

A Russian court sentenced U.S. citizen and WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine and a half years in prison on Thursday for smuggling cannabis oil into Russia in February.

Argentine socialist Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner once again faced charges of extreme corruption this week, the Argentine news site Infobae reported on Monday, citing accusations by prosecutor Diego Luciani that Fernández engaged in an “extraordinary” level of corruption during her presidency from 2007 to 2015.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively here that he is considering attending the funeral of the assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Breitbart News exclusively that “getting it done” and putting wins on the scoreboard are the core ethos of his administration five months in.

Dante Marquez Bender, 31, was arrested on Friday in connection with the killing of police officer Kennis Croom, 30, according to officials and reports.

Conservatives must offer concrete solutions to address rising crime in the U.S., Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said in a memo sent to committee member offices on Monday, offering a slate of solutions. 

El Salvador’s government declared a month-long state of emergency on Sunday in response to a recent spike in murders nationwide, the Venezuelan news website Runrun.es reported.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday closed out the state’s 2022 Legislative Session, largely deeming it the “year of the parent in the state of Florida.”

Those in attendance at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) press conference in Madison, Florida, on Monday shouted “Four more years!” at the end of the press conference, as the governor faces reelection in this year’s midterm election.

A Pakistani court acquitted Muhammad Waseem on Monday for the 2016 “honor killing” of his sister, a social media celebrity named Qandeel Baloch, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Liberal policies are fueling the rise in crime, declared Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who blasted the Biden administration for refusing to enforce the law.

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo) sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday for their involvement in the killings of two U.N. staff members in March 2017, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting the trial’s prosecutors suggested local militiamen carried out the murders “to take revenge against the UN” for allegedly “failing to prevent attacks against them by the [D.R. Congo] army.”

The Florida Police Chiefs Association (FPCA) endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) in his bid for reelection on Wednesday, asserting the Republican has “always had our back.”

Former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) believes Democrat leaders in Pennsylvania have contributed to Philadelphia’s record-breaking wave of murders by failing to prioritize law and order, he said during an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday.

New Jersey state troopers blocked Republicans Assembly members from entering the statehouse in Trenton on Thursday before Republicans defied the rule and entered the Assembly chamber. A new coronavirus policy that went into effect Wednesday, which requires proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test from those who wish to enter the statehouse, was the catalyst for the conundrum.

Pakistan’s Islamic Council of Ideology repealed an anti-rape law clause allowing chemical castration as a possible punishment for convicted rapists on Friday, just two days after the nation’s parliament enacted the law introducing the penalty, Voice of America (VOA) reported.