Category: Immigration & Border Security

CDC Decides to Keep Trump-Era Immigration Policy Due to Omicron

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) decided Friday to keep the Trump-era policy of expelling illegal immigrants due to the spread of COVID-19. The rule, known as Title 42, allows the administration to expel illegal immigrants who recently were in a country where a communicable disease was present. Data from the U.S. Customs and Border…


Biden Administration Backs Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Separated During Trump Era

President Joe Biden’s administration is now backing giving amnesty to illegal immigrants separated from family members at the U.S.–Mexico border during the Trump administration, shifting away from plans to pay money to the immigrants. Negotiations on the payments between the government and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, spurred by a hope to settle lawsuits…


Democrats’ COMPETES Bill Would Import Thousands of New Refugees, Economic Immigrants

In a Jan. 25 press release, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the broad outlines of the America COMPETES Act, a bill designed to increase American competitiveness in STEM fields, manufacturing, and rare earth metal extraction; however, the bill would also allow for the importation of thousands of new refugees and other immigrants…


NGA Chair Ducey: Biden Administration’s Southern Border Policy ‘Disconnected From Reality’

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday called the Biden administration’s southern border policy “disconnected from reality.” Ahead of a meeting with the National Governors Association (NGA) on Monday, President Joe Biden spoke of America having a chance to reassert world leadership on a range of issues including “everything from the environment to dealing with…


Texas Arrests Illegal Aliens for Trespassing—Democrats Urge DOJ to Shut It Down

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—A group of 50 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives is urging the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to investigate Operation Lone Star, a border security initiative launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in March 2021. “Operation Lone Star uses state criminal law to target Black and Latino migrants for punishment,”…


Cartels Have Operational Control of US Border, Are ‘Terrorizing’ the US, Says Rep. Chip Roy

Mexican cartels are making billions of dollars from drug trafficking, human smuggling, and exploiting the U.S. border, said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1.3 million illegal immigrants crossing into Texas from Mexico in 2021. Hundreds of thousands more weren’t captured. Seizures of the deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl, have sharply increased,…


Republicans Demand Answers After TSA Admits Illegal Immigrants Can Use Arrest Warrants to Fly

Senate Republicans are demanding answers from one of the top officials in President Joe Biden’s administration after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) acknowledged it lets illegal immigrants use arrest warrants as a form of identification to fly inside the United States. The revelation is “alarming” and presents a potential “serious threat to our nation’s homeland security,”…


Southern Border Crisis is a Threat to National Security: Former Customs and Border Patrol Chief

The massive numbers of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States are only one part of the crisis at the southern border, says former U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Chief Rodney Scott. A deadly and more immediate problem is the drug cartels that are deliberately using the illegal immigrants to overwhelm agents and create unmanned…


Southern Border Crisis a Threat to National Security: Former US Border Patrol Chief

The massive numbers of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States are only one part of the crisis at the southern border, says former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott. A deadly and more immediate problem is the drug cartels that are deliberately using the illegal immigrants to overwhelm agents and create unmanned land routes…


States Sue Biden Administration Over Alleged Abuse of Refugee Program

EDINBURG, Texas—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general on Friday lodged a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration over its alleged abuse of a refugee program. The Central American Minors Program lets illegal aliens petition the government to bring their minor children or other family members to the United States, according to the U.S….