The Biden administration chose to withhold from the public a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report tallying the number of visa overstays in the United States. Prior administrations – including those of both Presidents Obama and Trump – rel…
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Since January, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has kept the number of migrants encountered at the southern border whose names are registered in the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) from being made public. Created after the September 11 att…
On Thursday, President Biden hosted a meeting with his regional counterparts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico. No doubt, the three leaders had many important things to talk about: Soaring infl…
A group of congressional Democrats is complaining about Texas’ Operation Lone Star (OLS) border enforcement initiative, claiming that the state has established “a separate immigration policy.” The lawmakers’ beef ought to be with the Biden administrati…
Recent data showed 1.7 million apprehensions (“encounters”) at our southwestern border during Fiscal Year 2021, a historically record-breaking number. And our border crisis is showing no signs of abating, nor does the Biden administration seem particul…
As reported last week, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released the number of border encounters in September, bringing the year-end total to 1,734,686 – an all-time record. It is no surprise that border encounters have increased nearly every month …
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…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced the apprehensions of three foreign nationals with criminal backgrounds and gang affiliations attempting to enter the United States unlawfully. On October 20, border agents in the Rio Grande Va…
25 Oct: Texas Orders National Guard to Arrest Illegal Aliens (But It’s Not as Dramatic as It Sounds)
Since Kinney County, Texas, declared a border disaster in April, law enforcement officers there have arrested more than 1,000 illegal aliens, mainly on trespassing charges. Though Kinney is far and away the Lone Star leader in jailing migrants, officia…
On his very first day in office, President Joe Biden made it clear he is ideologically opposed to building walls. He doesn’t like them, they’re unfriendly, and they don’t work, are among the reasons he and his administration have cited for halting cons…