The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the opening of two more Emergency Intake Sites (EIS) in order to accommodate the record numbers of migrant minors crossing illegally every day. According to HHS, there are more than 20,00…
unaccompanied minors
On April 8, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released the latest apprehension numbers at the Southwest border for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. The data show that border officials apprehended 172,231 migrants last month – a 71 percent increase from th…
Hours after President Biden claimed in his inaugural press conference that there is a “significant increase” in illegal immigration in the winter months “every year,” the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent a memo to all federal agencies seeking …
If you’re looking for reasons why so many unaccompanied minors are crossing America’s southern border, look to their parents who are already here. In earlier waves of arrivals, 60 percent of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) were handed over to …
The Washington Post is on a roll. A piece published in their Monkey Cage analysis section tells us that “There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border.” Ignoring historic highs surpassing the 2019 surge (which the same paper called a crisis), …
While the Biden administration tells migrants the border is closed, officials continue to roll out welcome mats. Last week, the government approved $86.9 million for hotel lodging and services for immigrant families, prompting Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky….
Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly denied there was a border crisis, but on Saturday, he announced via press release that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be leading a “government-wide effort” to addr…
In January, 37,600 illegal aliens were encountered at the Southwest border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, which is nearly 119 percent increase from January 2020. That yearly spike also means CBP were averaging 1,000 encounters per day…
The Biden administration found itself in a predictable pickle in early February when rising numbers of unaccompanied minors were arriving at the Southwest border, in large part due to months of messaging that border enforcement would no longer be a pri…
In assigning a task force to devise ways to reunite families across America’s southern border, President Joe Biden is seeking to increase immigration while attempting to avoid the bad optics of a new border crisis. Biden’s executive order, signed Tuesd…