Source: Epoch Times Date: 7/13/2021 Adults bringing unrelated children across the United States border illegally to facilitate a quick release became a huge problem in 2019 during the last border surge. Border Patrol identified 5,800 fake families during an eight-week period covering the height of the 2019 crisis, according to congressional testimony from then-Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan. Stories were rife of smugglers renting children to adults, and adults buying or borrowing children from parents. This year, official data suggest that the problem...

Source: Law Enforcement Today Date: 7/11/2021 WASHINGTON, DC – The Open Borders lobby is calling on the Biden administration to stop Republican states from deploying law enforcement officers to the southern border to deal with the surge in illegals crossing into the country. League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) President Domingo Garcia sent a letter to President Biden on July 2 urging him to use executive action to stop the police deployments: “LULAC’s interest in law and order and protection of the lives of our citizens requires me to ask you to use your Executive Authority...

Source:Tennessean Date: 6/30/2021 The governor of South Dakota announced Tuesday her intent to deploy state National Guard troops to Texas to assist in securing the U.S.-Mexico border from illegal entrants, according to a press release.  Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the deployment would be paid by a private donor, with the mission lasting 30-60 days. Her spokesman, Ian Fury, confirmed that the Willis and Reba Johnson's Foundation from Franklin, Tennessee, was the donor. Noem, a Republican, said her decision is in response to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's request for more assistance to help...

Source: Conservative Brief Date: 7/12/2021 If you worried about how much more pathetic it could get under Joe Biden, then brace yourselves for what is happening behind the scenes. The Biden administration is instructing administration workers to use new language when referring to illegal immigrants. Biden’s administration reportedly banned terms such as “alien” and “illegal” and has replaced “alien” with “noncitizen” or “individual” and “illegal” with “undocumented.” U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has advised Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy Miller that he cannot...

Source: Daily Wire Date: 7/4/2021 The Biden administration will “relocate” $860 million in funds meant for COVID-19 relief programs to the Health and Human Services department in order to cover the cost of housing the thousands of child migrants who remain in United States custody. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra defended the switch in a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees Wednesday. Becerra claimed that “his department needed the funds to ensure the safety of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the border,” according to a report in the New York...

Source: Breitbart Date: 7/4/2021 El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with other federal agents to interdict two human smuggling stash houses in Texas and New Mexico. The interdictions led to the arrest of 65 migrants. El Paso Border Patrol agents teamed up with ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents to raid a suspected stash house in central El Paso on June 30, according to information obtained from Border Patrol officials. The agents found 22 migrants being warehoused in the house. Agents conducted immigration interviews and determined the migrants came from Ecuador (10),...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 7/1/2021 Border officials have seized 4,000 percent more fentanyl in 2021 than in 2018 as the border crisis continues, NBC News reported on June 29. Cartels have taken advantage of increased federal resources allocated for migrant encounters to smuggle fentanyl into the United States between ports of entry, according to NBC News. Border officials have found 41 pounds of fentanyl in fiscal year 2021, compared with nine pounds in 2020, two pounds in 2019, and one pound in 2018. “For the first time, we’re starting to see these tactics where fentanyl is...

Source: Gateway Pundit Date: 6/29/2021 In the short time since Kamala Harris has been supposedly in charge of the crisis at the border, a half a million people have illegally crossed into America. That number is absolutely staggering and it is growing every single day. How is this sustainable? The Washington Free Beacon reports: More Than 500K Illegal Immigrants Crossed Southern Border Since Kamala Harris Named ‘Border Czar’ Vice President Kamala Harris finally visited the southern border, three months after being put in charge of solving the immigration crisis. In that time, more than...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/27/2021 DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents have arrested 353 illegal aliens with sex-related criminal convictions so far this fiscal year. A large number of the detainees had prior convictions for crimes involving a minor. In all of fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 156 criminal sex offenders, and 58 total in fiscal 2019. The number of criminals illegally crossing the southwest border has spiked in tandem with the border crossing surge this year. Convicted criminals are the most likely population of illegal aliens trying to avoid capture by Border Patrol. Border...

Source: RF Angle Date: 6/25/2021 A news release showing Kamala Harris’ schedule for visiting the border shows she was miles away Harris was at the airport, border patrol station, and left Texas at 12:30 PM A news release from Vice President’s office shows that the Kamala Harris didn’t visit the U.S. Mexican border, but rather a border patrol station. The schedule shows she toured the El Paso Border Patrol Station, met with “advocates from faith-based NGOs,” and then was flying out of Texas by 12:30. The schedule also notes media coverage of the visit, location for a photo op, and taking...

Source: Breitbart Date: 6/23/2021 A BBC investigation into unaccompanied minor detention centers in Texas revealed alarming conditions under the Biden Administration. The BBC reports migrant children are exposed to disease, dangerous food, and sexual abuse while in confinement. As the flood of unaccompanied migrant children mounted through the spring, the Biden Administration quickly put up detention centers in multiple locations. The BBC reports the migrant children, mostly from Central America, face “heartbreaking” living conditions. Findings by the BBC from interviews with staff and migrant...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/24/2021 The Biden administration is removing the current head of the U.S. Border Patrol Rodney Scott to appoint deputy chief Raul Ortiz as the new Chief for the federal agency that oversees the nation’s southern border safety and security. Scott said he received a letter known as the “3R” letter that gives veteran government employees the option to retire, resign, or relocate to a different job within the Department of Homeland Security. “I received my 3R letter today. For those not familiar, that is Federal government slang for the letter issued to...

Source: Daily Wire Date: 6/23/2021 Vice President Kamala Harris will finally visit the United States-Mexico border this week, three months after being put in charge of the immigration crisis, and days after Republicans urged President Joe Biden to relieve Harris of her duties and replace her with a new border czar. Politico reports that Harris “will make a stop in El Paso, Texas on Friday, according to sources familiar with the trip. She is expected to be accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.” Harris’s office and the Department of Homeland Security both refused to...

Source: RF Angle Date: 6/23/2021 Vice President Kamala Harris will finally visit the United States-Mexico border this week, three months after Biden assigned her to be his border czar, and days after House Republicans urged President Biden to relieve Harris of her duty of handling the border crisis. Politico reported that Harris “will make a stop in El Paso, Texas on Friday, according to sources familiar with the trip. She is expected to be accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.” Harris’s office and the Department of Homeland Security both refused to confirm details...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/21/2021 The amount of fentanyl seized at the U.S.–Mexico border in May from attempts to smuggle the drug into the United States has more than tripled since last year, according to the latest statistics from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP data show that that last month, 951 pounds of fentanyl were seized by officers—up from 240 pounds in May last year. The amount of the drug snared by officers has been rising this year, with 945 pounds seized in January, 799 pounds in February, 660 pounds in March, and 886 pounds of fentanyl apprehended in...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/20/2021 Commentary Let’s talk calmly and objectively about U.S. immigration policy, shall we? And let’s focus on what’s happened so far this year following our nation’s latest changes in strategy. Those changes have sparked an unprecedented flood of refugees across our southern border. The U.S. Border Patrol reports that during the month of May, agents grappled with more than 180,000 migrants. In April, the number was 178,000. A government estimate says we are on track to handle more than 2 million immigrants entering via the southern border by the...

Source: Daily Wire Date: 6/9/2021 Asylum seekers, currently residing in a migrant camp located just south of the United States-Mexico border, say they are plagued by crime and kidnappings and that the Biden administration has yet to address their safety concerns, even as Vice President Kamala Harris meets with Mexican officials to discuss immigration policy. Speaking to NBC News, a volunteer who helps to handle child welfare and education issues in a massive border camp that has cropped up just across the border from McAllen, Texas, says that residents, who are waiting their turn in front...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/8/2021 The Biden administration on Monday said it may file a lawsuit against Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed an order to pull state licenses for shelters that house unaccompanied minors who recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last month, Abbott signed an order mandating that officials need to end state licenses for the shelters being used by the federal government within 90 days.  The federal government—and typically the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—is responsible for caring for and housing unaccompanied minors,...

Source: Daily Wire Date: 6/8/2021 Nearly a million illegal immigrants have been apprehended by United States Customs and Border Protection since October 1, 2020, and more than 170,000 were captured last month, according to new statistics from CBP, obtained by Axios. The numbers are already the highest since 2006, with still four months left to go in the agency’s fiscal year, the outlet reported Tuesday. “The number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year is already the most since 2006 — with four months left to go,” Axios noted. “Why it matters: The numbers...

Source: The Hill Date: 5/13/2021 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has resumed construction on 13.4 miles of levee in the Rio Grande Valley that had been left unfinished after President Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office pausing construction on the southern border. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has resumed construction on 13.4 miles of levee in the Rio Grande Valley that had been left unfinished after President Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office pausing construction on the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/1/2021 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration at the state’s southern border to augment additional resources to efforts addressing the humanitarian crisis at the border. “President Biden’s open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities,” Abbott said in a statement. “Meanwhile, landowners along the border are seeing their property damaged and vandalized on a daily basis while the Biden Administration does nothing to protect them....

Source: ZeroHedge Date: 6/1/2021 The Biden administration has scrapped FBI background checks for caregivers at its overpacked child migrant shelters (or as AOC no longer calls them, 'concentration camps'), alarming child welfare experts who say this compromises safety, according to the Chicago Tribune. The move comes as Biden turns to "tent camps, convention centers and other huge facilities" which are operated by private contractors paid by the Department of Health and Human Services. In March, the administration announced that it would open eight new emergency sites across the Southwest,...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/1/2021 BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—The tens of thousands of illegal aliens that evade Border Patrol every month—hoping to slip undetected to large cities up north—are now being confronted by sheriffs who are starting to charge them for trespassing, evading arrest on foot, and endangering the life or health of a child. Seeing no solutions to the border crisis from the federal government, some counties are looking at all possible means to rein in the high-speed vehicle pursuits, trespassing, break-ins, vehicle thefts, and other crimes that are increasing in...

Source: Breaking 911 Date: June 1, 2021 LAREDO, Texas – Over a 24-hour period, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended over 160 illegal immigrants during two separate alleged human smuggling attempts. The first incident occurred shortly after midnight on May 28, when a tractor hauling a tanker trailer approached the checkpoint on Highway 83. During primary inspection, a Service canine alerted to the conveyance and agents referred it to secondary inspection. There, a non-intrusive scan revealed over 50 individuals inside the tanker. All were in the U.S. illegally and nationals of Mexico. The...

Source: Washington Examiner Date: 5/24/2021 An independent auditor within the Department of Homeland Security will launch an investigation into the Biden administration awarding an $87 million contract to house in hotels migrant families who illegally crossed the southern border. The DHS Office of the Inspector General will examine how Texas-based Endeavors was given a massive federal contract by DHS agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the Washington Examiner’s report that exposed the nonprofit group’s potential conflicts of interest, including how its senior director worked...

Source: Resist the Mainstream Date: 5/21/2021 Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are demanding answers from the Biden administration after reports that it has been flying migrant children into the state in the middle of the night, without informing them. The story: Videos that emerged this week appeared to show that the administration is flying migrants to Tennesse from where they are bused to Southeast cities. A video obtained by WRCB-TV Channel 3 and published Wednesday showed minors, who were carrying matching bags, deboarding a plane at the Wilson Air Center in Chattanooga at night and...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/19/2021 Border Patrol agents in Texas recently arrested two illegal immigrants who were both previously convicted for child sex offenses. The first of the two arrests happened on May 15, when agents at McAllen Border Patrol Station working near Abrams, Texas arrested a group of 10 immigrants shortly after they had illegally entered the United States. An unaccompanied minor was among them. One of the men in the group was found to have been previously arrested by law enforcement in Washington state for rape of a child. Raul Sanchez-Sanchez was found...

Source: RF Angle Date: 5/12/2021 The Biden administration will resume construction on the border wall, sources tell Fox News. “BREAKING: .@FoxNews has confirmed via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that construction on a 13.4 mile stretch of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley will *RESUME* after pressure from local residents & politicians,” said Bill Melugin, a reporter from Fox LA. “The Biden admin previously halted all wall construction in Jan.” “In support of CBP’s border infrastructure program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has resumed DHS-funded design and construction support...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/15/2021 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated on Friday the amount of fentanyl U.S. border agents intercepted on the Texas-Mexico border has increased by 800 percent in April compared to the same month in the previous year. “But I gotta tell you there’s a new dynamic about what’s going on at the border that Americans need to know about and that is increased apprehension of fentanyl coming across the border,” Abbott said during an interview with Fox News. “Yes, there may be people coming across but there are dangerous drugs coming across the border.” “We had...

Source: Breitbart Date: 5/2/2021 A law enforcement source within Customs and Border Protection says more than 185,000 migrants escaped Border Patrol apprehension so far this fiscal year. On average, more than 30,000 illegal aliens avoided capture in the last 22 days the source said. Breitbart Texas reported in mid-April, the “got-away” total exceeded more than 155,000 leaving Border Patrol leadership frustrated. Last year, 69,000 illegal migrants managed to avoid apprehension by the Border Patrol. In just over seven months of this fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2020, the number of...