Category: Immigration & Border Security

Mexican Cartels Targeting Montana With Fentanyl Because of High Profits: Officials

June 23, 2022
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Mexican drug cartels crossing the southern border are targeting the U.S. state of Montana with fentanyl because there are “tremendous profits” to be made there, according to officials. Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told Fox News that the number of fentanyl deaths in the state has been drastically increasing since 2020 and that intelligence has shown that drug…

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Many Constituents Have ‘a Neighbor or Relative’ Who Died From Fentanyl: Rep. Ken Buck

June 20, 2022
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Besides the record number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S. southern border in 2021, drug smuggling and drug overdoses are at an all-time high. Last year, fentanyl overdoses were the leading cause of death for people aged 18 to 45 years. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he is deeply concerned that so many of his…

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Florida to Go After Parents Who Pay Cartels to Smuggle Their Children Into the US

June 17, 2022
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is looking to investigate and prosecute parents who pay transnational criminal organizations to smuggle their children illegally across the U.S. southern border. DeSantis filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court on June 17 requesting a statewide grand jury be impaneled for the initial duration of a year. “The purpose of…

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Arizona’s Brnovich, States Not Giving Up on Reviving Trump’s Immigrant Self-Sufficiency Rule

June 16, 2022
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The 13 states that banded together to try to defend the so-called public charge rule are weighing their options about how to revive the policy after the Supreme Court dismissed their appeal, an aide to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said. The Trump-era rule screened out potentially government-dependent immigrants but the Biden administration refused to…

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Illegal Immigrant Arrests at US–Mexico Border in May Most in US History

June 16, 2022
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Arrests of illegal immigrants at the U.S.–Mexico border in May set a new record, according to data released late June 15 by President Joe Biden’s administration. Nearly 239,500 arrests were tallied in May, breaking the previous record-high set in April. Single adults comprised about 69 percent of the arrests, family units made up about a…

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Illegal Immigrant Arrests in May at US–Mexico Border Most in US History

June 16, 2022
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Arrests of illegal immigrants at the U.S.–Mexico border in May set a new record, according to data released on June 15 by President Joe Biden’s administration. Nearly 239,500 arrests were tallied in May, topping the previous record set in April. Single adults made up about 69 percent of the arrests, family units made up about…

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Border Officers Arrest Multiple People Smuggling Fentanyl ‘Within Their Bodies’

June 15, 2022
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People have been caught at various border entry points in El Paso, Texas, over the past week trying to smuggle fentanyl into the United States “within their bodies,” authorities say. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers say that in the three days to June 10 they identified and stopped “significant drug loads on a…

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Supreme Court Tosses Appeal Seeking to Revive Trump’s Immigrant Self-Sufficiency Rule

June 15, 2022
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The Supreme Court reversed itself June 15, deciding it was wrong when it previously agreed to hear an appeal by 13 states to defend the so-called public charge rule that screens out potentially government-dependent immigrants, after the Biden administration declined to do so. The public charge rule, which had fallen into disuse, was revived by the Trump…

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Supreme Court Won’t Lower Bar for Immigration Detainees to Sue Government

June 13, 2022
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In a pair of rulings on June 13, the Supreme Court made it harder for those held in immigration detention to bring legal challenges. In Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, court file 19-896, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote (pdf) for a unanimous court that the federal government is not required to conduct a bond hearing for noncitizens detained…

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Texas Judge Blocks Federal Policy Letting ‘Criminal Aliens’ ‘Roam Free’

June 11, 2022
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Texas and Louisiana have successfully sued the Biden administration over an immigration policy that saw “criminal aliens” released from custody into the community instead of being deported. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton on Friday ruled in favor of Texas and Louisiana, finding that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued rules via “self-styled” memorandum meant…

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