Category: Immigration & Border Security

Massachusetts Judge Could Face Prosecution for Allegedly Blocking ICE Arrest

March 2, 2022
Featured TopicsICEillegal immigrantimmigrationImmigration & Border SecurityJudiciaryMassachusettsUSUS News
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A Massachusetts judge may face prosecution after a federal appeals court on Monday declined to dismiss a case that accuses her of blocking the arrest of an illegal immigrant. In a criminal case filed during the Trump administration, Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph is accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant…

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Massachusetts Judge Might Face Prosecution for Allegedly Blocking ICE Arrest

March 2, 2022
Featured TopicsICEillegal immigrantimmigrationImmigration & Border SecurityJudiciaryMassachusettsUSUS News
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A Massachusetts judge might face prosecution after a federal appeals court on Feb. 28 declined to dismiss a case in which she’s accused of blocking the arrest of an illegal immigrant. In a criminal case filed during the Trump administration, Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph is accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of…

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Underage Teenagers Being Recruited Into Human Smuggling Operations, Texas Sheriff Warns

March 1, 2022
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A sheriff’s office in Texas announced in a press release that a traffic stop over the weekend has brought newfound attention to how Mexican cartels use underage teenagers to carry out human smuggling. According to the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office, the cartels use underage teenagers to act as drivers and organizers in their illicit operations…

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US-Bound Migrants in Southern Mexico Are Counseled on Controversial ‘Repressed Memories’

February 26, 2022
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Two United Nations-sponsored groups in southern Mexico are reportedly coaching immigrants arriving there on “repressed memories” that would allow them to gain asylum cards in Mexico for passage northward and then illegal entry into the United States. Both the Jesuit Society of Refugees and an outfit called Fray Matias de Cordova, based in the Mexican…

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High Speed Chases, Smuggling Crashes Take Toll on Small Border Town

February 24, 2022
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BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—Katherine Vasquez is thanking her lucky stars.  Almost home after a morning walk with her dog, she heard a vehicle moving way too fast for the 30mph speed limit.  Quarter of a mile away, an SUV was bearing down on her location so quickly that she barely had time to run across the road…

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13 States Ask Supreme Court to Let Them Defend Trump-era Immigrant Self-Sufficiency Rule

February 23, 2022
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich urged a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court Feb. 23 to allow a group of 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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Presumed Illegal Immigrant Killed by Border Patrol Agent in Arizona, Sheriff’s Office Says

February 22, 2022
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Federal and local officials are probing the fatal shooting of a man in Arizona by a U.S. Border Patrol agent late Saturday, Feb. 19. The shooting occurred a few miles north of the Mexico border near of the Arizona town of Douglas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) area spokesman John Mennell said on Monday….

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‘Ghost Flights’: The Mystery of the Migrant Kids the Feds Are Spiriting Into the US Interior

February 20, 2022
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After months of delay, the Department of Homeland Security replied late last month to a Congressional demand for information about the number of illegal migrants the department has flown from border towns to communities around the country. In 2021, it said, 71,617 were dropped off in nearly 20 cities including locales as far from the…

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Supreme Court to Hear Biden Administration’s Appeal Over ‘Remain in Mexico’

February 18, 2022
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The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear the Biden administration’s appeal over a Trump-era immigration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their case is heard, instead of being allowed to await their hearings in the United States. Lower court rulings had forced the administration to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy, officially…

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Border Crisis Can’t Wait Three More Years for a New Administration to Fix: Russ Vought

February 18, 2022
Arizonaborder crisisborder securityFeatured TopicsFederal-State RelationsImmigration & Border SecurityLocal NewsNational SecurityPolicies & ImpactsPoliticsRegional-Local NewsRuss Voughtstate declare invasionTexasUSUS News
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The situation at the southern border has been so bad that it can’t wait three more years for a new administration to step in, and border states have the constitutional authority to defend themselves, according to Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Trump administration. “We have a real…

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