U.S. immigration officials apprehended nearly 70,000 illegal aliens at the southern border last month—the highest monthly total for October in 15 years—despite a number of COVID-19 travel and border restrictions remaining in place. The surge is of sign…
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President-elect Joe Biden warns of a “very dark winter” as the U.S. approaches 10 million coronavirus cases. His moves on immigration, however, threaten to super-spread COVID at the southern border. Take El Paso. Separated from Juarez, Mexico, by the R…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) takes aim at illegal immigration in its new “Homeland Threat Assessment.” Forecasting that illegal traffic across the Southwest border will “climb significantly” after COVID-19 restrictions ease, the agency war…
The news for much of this year has been dominated, understandably, by COVID-19. Fears of terrorism seem to have been relegated to the backburner as many are concerned about their health, lockdowns, and the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus. Ho…
While questions concerning the whereabouts of parents of 545 unaccompanied migrant children grabbed headlines last month, the rescue of a dozen minors abandoned at the border went virtually unnoticed. U.S. Border Patrol agents near Hidalgo, Texas, loca…
On October 28, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan was busy tweeting updates on the construction of new portions of the border wall and how America was kept safer by having a “multi-layered, risk-based approach to border s…
On October 16, the Department of Justice released a report revealing 94 percent of aliens in federal incarceration facilities were confirmed to be unlawfully present in the United States during Fiscal Year 2019. According to the Alien Incarceration Rep…
Things never seem to stay quiet on the immigration issue for very long. This past September, border apprehensions suddenly shot up to more than 57,000, the highest total for the month of September in 15 years, as well as the highest number of apprehens…
Contracts to build 40 more miles of new border wall have been announced for Texas’ busy and crime-infested Laredo Sector. The construction project will include a 30-foot-tall steel bollard wall, all-weather roads, lighting, enforcement cameras and othe…
Back in April, a blog about alien criminals re-entering the United States was intended to be a one-time piece. Since then, it has evolved into a series as a result of the glut of examples of previously deported foreign felons taking advantage of our po…