Category: Immigration & Border Security

60,000 Migrants Waiting in Mexico Across Border From El Paso, Texas

In the past two weeks, more than 60,000 migrants have amassed in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, directly across the border from El Paso, Texas, in anticipation of Title 42 being lifted from the border. “And we can only imagine it growing even further,” Mario D’Agostino, El Paso deputy city manager, told his city council members on…


Border Patrol Dealing With Huge Groups, Heat-Related Deaths, Drownings in Del Rio Sector

EAGLE PASS, Texas—Homeland Security officials saying “the border is closed” seems to be having little impact. Thousands of illegal immigrants are pouring across the southern border every day and the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector in south Texas is a magnet for large groups, which Customs and Border Protection defines as more than 100 individuals….


Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Lifting Title 42

A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42, a border policy that has enabled border authorities to quickly expel illegal immigrants at the southern U.S. border back to Mexico on public health grounds amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a 47-page ruling on Friday, Judge Robert Summerhays in Louisiana granted a nationwide…


Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Crimes Plunged Under Biden, Records Show

Newly released records from President Joe Biden’s administration show that deportations of criminal illegal immigrants have plunged since Biden took office. Over 72,300 convicted criminals living in the United States were deported in fiscal year 2019, according to the records. That number dropped to about 54,000 in fiscal year 2020, and to just 29,326 in…


Sporadic US Food Shortages Worry Venezuelan Immigrants About Country’s Direction

When Venezuelan immigrants in the United States see items missing from store shelves, they worry about the direction of the U.S. and remember the empty shelves in their home as it fell into socialism. Once the richest country in South America, today many in Venezuela are impoverished and many are leaving to survive. But it…


Sporadic US Food Shortages Trigger Worries in Venezuelan Immigrants About Country’s Direction

When Venezuelan immigrants in the United States see items missing from store shelves, they worry about the direction of the United States and remember the empty shelves in their home country as it fell into socialism. Once the richest country in South America, today many in Venezuela are impoverished and many are leaving to survive….


Sporadic US Food Shortages Trigger Worries for Immigrants About Country’s Direction

When Venezuelan immigrants in the United States see items missing from store shelves, they worry about the direction of the United States and remember the empty shelves in their home country as it fell into socialism. Once the richest country in South America, today many in Venezuela are impoverished and many are leaving to survive….


Border Patrol Union Leader Warns ‘Complete Control’ by Cartels Once Title 42 Ends

The head of the Border Patrol union warned that drug cartels would seize “complete control” of the southern border, as a Trump-era public health order to expel illegal immigrants is to expire on Monday. “That we just don’t have anybody in the field, that we just can’t patrol the border,” National Border Patrol Council President…


Border Agents Encounter Record 260,450 Illegal Immigrants in April

DEL RIO, Texas—Border officials processed a record 260,450 illegal and inadmissible aliens during April, according to newly released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. More than 202,300 illegal border crossers were apprehended by Border Patrol agents, while an additional 58,140 individuals presented themselves at ports of entry—21,137 of whom were Ukrainians. The numbers are an…


EXCLUSIVE: Border Patrol Using Rare ‘Parole’ Exemption to Quickly Release Tens of Thousands of Illegal Aliens Into US

DEL RIO, Texas—U.S. Border Patrol has started to use, on a mass scale, a special “parole” exception that was previously used sparingly to allow tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the United States for at least a year, The Epoch Times has learned. Under parole status, illegal immigrants don’t have to provide…