As a new wave of migrants laps along the southern border, Texas is barricading a key entry point under international bridges in the town of Eagle Pass. Whether Operation Steel Curtain will deter illegal crossers, or just reroute them up or down the lar…
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If the Biden administration carries out threats to fire unvaccinated Border Patrol officers by Nov. 22, the service could lose up to 11,532 agents – leaving a mere 8,013 on duty. Between the president’s vax mandate and normal rates of attrition, the Bo…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) says that among the 10,763 criminal aliens it arrested in fiscal year 2021, just 10 had been convicted of homicide. A Texas congressman suspects that’s a serious undercount, and is demanding answers from the agency. The inquir…
Up to half of Border Patrol personnel in Texas has been pulled from the field, with a record low 12 officers attempting to cover a busy 245-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. As more agents are assigned to deskwork, “morale is in the toilet,” says the Bor…
Since President Joe Biden took office, apprehensions at the southern border have skyrocketed, reaching nearly 179,000 in April alone. This year-to-date, 749,613 migrants have been apprehended, a 196 percent increase from this point in FY 2020. Furtherm…
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release, Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers recently seized hard narcotics in four separate incidents that totaled more than $11 million. The seizures took place over the course of th…
This year is already the deadliest on record for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, due to COVID-19 and illegal aliens. The McAllen (Texas) Monitor reported this month that 10 CBP officers have died since March as a result of contracti…
Last week, a federal grand jury in California indicted 17 alleged MS-13 gang members on federal racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder, assault, and weapons charges. The indictments, which were the result of a joint investigation conducted by state …
Bowing to illegal-alien advocates, Greyhound says it will no longer allow Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration checks on its buses without a warrant. Coincidental or not, Greyhound’s policy reversal came three weeks after a leaked memo in which …