Category: Immigration & Border Security

Biden: Illegal Immigrants Separated During Trump Administration ‘Deserve’ Compensation

Illegal immigrant families who were separated during the Trump administration after crossing the border should be paid, President Joe Biden said Saturday. “If in fact, because of the outrageous behavior of the last administration, you were coming across the border, whether it was legal or illegal, and you lost your child—you lost your child—it’s gone—you…


‘Pathological Self-Hatred’ of Western Elites Silences Debate on Immigration and Environment: Mark Krikorian

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, has studied immigration-related issues for decades. He sat down with The Epoch Times at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, shortly before delivering his speech at the event, “Mass Immigration vs. Modern Society.” The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity. The…


White House: Illegal Immigrants Could Get Government Payouts

Illegal immigrants who were separated from family members by U.S. border agents could get money from the government in a potential lawsuit settlement, the White House said Thursday. Directly rebutting President Joe Biden’s comments a day prior, White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters the reported payments could happen. “If it saves taxpayer…


Biden Denies ‘Garbage’ Reports of $450,000 Payments to Illegal Immigrants

President Joe Biden on Wednesday denied reports that his administration is planning to pay $450,000 to families of illegal aliens separated under the Trump administration. “If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. But it’s not true,” Biden told a reporter who asked a question about the matter on Nov. 3. “That’s not going…


GOP Senators Tell Biden to Drop Plan to Create Illegal Immigrant Millionaires

A group of Republican senators want President Joe Biden to drop his administration’s reported plan to pay more than $1 billion to illegal immigrants whose families were separated by federal immigration authorities under Donald Trump. The payments would be made by the federal government to settle litigation filed on behalf of hundreds of such illegal…


Migrant Caravan Rejects Humanitarian Visa, Heads to US and Mexico City

Leaders of a migrant caravan consisting of thousands of migrants have rejected humanitarian visas for some travelers as they continued the march towards the United States or Mexico city. The Mexican National Institute of Migration (INM) said that it offered humanitarian visas to pregnant women and children in the caravan but was rejected by leaders…


Woman Dies Trying to Swim Around California-Mexican Border Barrier

A woman has died in an attempt to illegally enter the United States by swimming around the end of the barrier along the California-Mexican border, federal officials said. Border patrol agents were notified just after 11:30 p.m. Friday that a group of possibly 70 people was trying to swim from Tijuana, Mexico into the United…


Supreme Court Defies Biden Administration, Accepts Immigration, EPA Cases

The Supreme Court decided Oct. 29 to hear two cases that the Biden administration did not want the court to hear—one, aimed at reviving a rule that screens out potentially government-dependent immigrants, and another that could roll back the reach of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The court decisions came as migrants continue to…


1 Dead After Large Group Try to Illegally Swim Into US: Border Patrol

One person is dead after a large group of people tried to illegally enter the United States by swimming and entering the beach at Border Field State Park in San Diego, California, border authorities said. Border patrol agents were notified around 11:40 p.m. on Oct. 29 of a group of about 70 people trying to illegally…


Border Surveillance Tools Could Become Ubiquitous Nationwide: Report

Drones, towers, license plate readers, and other surveillance tools comprise a “digital border wall” that threatens privacy and civil liberties, according to a new report from three immigration advocacy groups. The Deadly Digital Border Wall report criticizes law enforcement’s surveillance of the U.S.-Mexico border, but the tools described in the report could be—and have been—used against all…