Source: CNN Date: 5/3/2021 The Biden administration will raise the refugee ceiling to 62,500 people this fiscal year, the White House confirmed, after receiving swift criticism last month when President Joe Biden kept the lower Trump-era cap in place. "I am revising the United States' annual refugee admissions cap to 62,500 for this fiscal year," Biden said in a lengthy statement Monday. "This erases the historically low number set by the previous administration of 15,000, which did not reflect America's values as a nation that welcomes and supports refugees."   Biden said he plans...

Source: Western Journal Date: 4/30/2021 The Biden administration has packed roughly 7,200 illegal aliens onto commercial airplanes in recent months, requiring those who broke the law to enter the country neither a negative COVID test, or a valid I.D., according to reports. Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas shared the shocking claim in a tweet posted on Thursday. “Just in the last 3 months, TSA has flown over 7,200 illegal migrants on commercial airlines without photo ID’s or a negative COVID test,” Pfluger claimed. The Biden Admin is knowingly endangering the lives of American citizens.” Breitbart...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/30/2021​ The Department of Defense (DOD) announced it is canceling U.S.-Mexico border wall construction efforts that were paid with funds that were initially allocated for the military. Former President Donald Trump ordered the diversion of billions of dollars in military and defense funds toward building the wall, using his emergency executive powers. “The Department of Defense is proceeding with canceling all border barrier construction projects paid for with funds originally intended for other military missions and functions such as schools for...

Source: Western Journal Date: 4/29/2021 Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly slammed President Joe Biden for failing to offer a solution to the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis unfolding at the nation’s southern border. Kelly made the remarks in a statement Wednesday night shortly after the 78-year-old career politician delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress. “While I share President Biden’s urgency in fixing our broken immigration system, what I didn’t hear tonight was a plan to address the immediate crisis at the border, and I will continue holding this administration...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/21/2021 Last Saturday, the Biden administration abruptly closed a temporary facility housing nearly 500 unaccompanied illegal immigrant girls in Houston, Texas, a move allegedly due to the “unbearable” conditions of the facility. The facility is an emergency shelter of the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC), a nonprofit organization focused on disaster services. It’s actually in a warehouse in northern Houston, near the George Bush International Airport. From April 1, NACC opened the shelter as a temporary facility to house unaccompanied...

Source: Resist the Mainstream Date: 4/19/2021 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed President Biden’s immigration policies on “Sunday Morning Futures,” saying he “dismantled” former President Trump’s policies and now there is “a huge catastrophe at the southern border,” which he argued will have “reverberations all across the country.” He explained during an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo that the “catastrophe” started with Biden “dismantling President Trump’s policies to stop the flow of the illegal migrants across the southern border.” “What Donald Trump did worked,” DeSantis stressed. “I...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/15/2021 Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke of the San Diego area published a distressing video of a smuggler dropping a 2-year-old child from an 18 feet high border wall to the child’s father, who was standing at mid-altitude on a concrete structure. Heitke said that the incident occurred on Sunday and that, luckily, the child wasn’t hurt. “Sunday, #BorderPatrol agents witnessed a smuggler drop a two-year-old child from atop the 18-foot-high border wall into the arms of the child’s father,” wrote Heitke. “This event could have been catastrophic. Luckily, the child...

Source: Breitbart Date: 4/12/2021 President Joe Biden’s administration has released nearly 42,000 border crossers into the United States interior since the former vice president took office on January 20, internal data obtained by Breitbart News reveals. Almost immediately after taking office, Biden restarted the Catch and Release process whereby border crossers are apprehended and released into the nation’s interior by ending the Remain in Mexico program and canceling U.S. cooperative asylum agreements with Central America. As of April 10, according to internal Department of Homeland Security...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/14/2021 Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Tuesday urged Gov. Doug Ducey to take “swift” action in response to the burgeoning crisis at the U.S. southern border, including declaring a state of emergency in the Grand Canyon State. Brnovich made the request in a letter to Ducey, arguing that the state should do more to help curb the flow of illegal immigration and assist federal law enforcement agents who have been overwhelmed by the surge. “Reversing the devastating trends at the border will require enforcing the rule of law and holding the federal government...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/14/2021 President Joe Biden’s administration is spending roughly $60 million a week to shelter illegal immigrant children who cross into the United States from Mexico. Known as unaccompanied children, caring for the minors has driven the price tag for immigration-related expenses up sharply as U.S. officials grapple with the surge that some experts and Republicans say stems from Biden’s reversal of key Trump-era policies. More than 18,600 unaccompanied children were apprehended after crossing the border in March, more than double the figure from the...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/31/2021 MEXICO CITY—A 4-year-old Honduran boy was found traveling alone near the Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the United States with no one to claim him, the Mexican government said on Wednesday. Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said the boy was found unaccompanied among trees and thickets as he walked toward the border. He was close to Reynosa, a Mexican city long troubled by violence, that sits across from McAllen, Texas. A group of three mothers and six children were located in the same area, but none of the adults took responsibility...

Source: RF Angle Date: 3/30/2021 Teachers from San Diego Unified School District are teaching illegal immigrant children in-person before their own students, Fox News reports. San Diego students are currently only learning in an online format and are expected to move towards in-person instruction on April 12th. Students will be instructed using a hybrid-learning model that would split instruction time between online and in person. “We have 130,000 kids who haven’t been allowed in a classroom for over a year in the San Diego Unified School District. It’s great that there’s in-person learning...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/29/2021 Five hundred unaccompanied minors will arrive on Monday evening at an emergency holding facility in San Antonio, Texas, which was set up to address the surge in illegal border crossings in recent weeks. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) said the Freeman Expo Center has been partly transformed to provide shelter for boys aged between 13 and 17 who had crossed into the United States illegally. The center has a potential capacity of 2,100 beds with an additional 300 medical beds. The announcement...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/29/2021 McALLEN, Texas—The Biden administration has moved away from sending families back across the border using the COVID-19 emergency measure called Title 42. Now the vast majority (upwards of 85 percent) of family units who are apprehended by Border Patrol after crossing the border illegally are quickly released into the United States. On March 25, a total of 6,000 people were apprehended by Border Patrol along the southwest border, according to a senior Border Patrol official during a March 26 press call. Of the 2,200 individuals within family...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/29/2021 U.S. Customs and Border Protection released around 2,000 illegal immigrants in southern Texas without giving them notices to show up at an immigration court proceeding in the future, said a Texas Democratic congressman. “There are some family units that have been returned to Mexico depending on the age of the kids that are with them,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told CBS News on Sunday, adding that while some are returned, “over 2,000 of them have been released into the United States without a notice to appear.” “I emphasize—without a notice to appear...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/29/2021 Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday that he believes the flow of illegal immigrants to the U.S. southern border can be curbed if the Biden administration reinstates former President Donald Trump’s policies. “All you have to do is talk to the Border Patrol members. They’ll tell you straight up. All we have to do is go back to what we were doing before President Biden,” Kennedy told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “President Biden undid everything that the Republican Congress and the Trump administration did. “It’ll be fixed in a week,” he said. The...

Source: KLFY Date: 3/28/2021 McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have released at least 2,000 migrants without full information about their upcoming immigration court proceedings as border agents are overwhelmed by the continuous high numbers crossing into South Texas daily from Mexico, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told Border Report on Sunday morning. The fast-track releases in the field are up substantially from the 150 families who were released last week, as Border Report first reported. On Sunday, Cuellar also released to Border Report new photos...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/28/2021 A Border Patrol section chief reported that more than 861 criminals have been encountered at the border, including 92 sex offenders and 63 gang members since the start of the fiscal year. “Within the copious amounts of groups being encountered in” the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, “a Salvadoran man with a prior conviction for murder was discovered” along with 862 criminal aliens, Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings wrote on Twitter Saturday. Hastings wrote that recently, agents encountered five large groups of illegal immigrant families,...

Source: RF Angle Date: 3/24/2021 While Americans are struggling paying their bills, illegal immigrants will be receiving billions of dollars worth of stimulus checks. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, millions of illegal immigrants will be receiving the checks. “We estimate that there are 2.65 million illegal immigrants who have Social Security numbers that allow them to receive stimulus checks,” said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies. “We estimate that 2.1 million of these individuals have incomes low enough to qualify for checks,...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/24/2021 As the number of illegal immigrants arriving at the southern border continues to surge, Mexico’s president cast blame this week on President Joe Biden’s policies, saying he created certain “expectations” that are ultimately spurring illegal immigrants into making the trip. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a March 23 press conference that Biden has caused the surge at the U.S.–Mexico border. Border Patrol apprehended 100,441 illegal border-crossers along the southern border in February, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP)....

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/24/2021 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) proposed an immigration measure on March 24 that aims to close loopholes in the asylum system and change policies that may be contributing to the escalating crisis on the southern border. Upon taking office in January, President Joe Biden revoked a host of Trump-era immigration measures that had largely stemmed the flow of illegal aliens into the country. The changes triggered a surge in illegal crossings, especially by unaccompanied minors, more than 11,000 of whom were being kept in overcrowded facilities as of...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/24/2021 Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan said that the Biden administration’s policies on the border are detrimental for the nation. “This administration is absolutely—has dismantled everything, and everything that they’re doing is against the nation’s best interest, and I believe it’s for perceived political gain,” Morgan told Just the News. Morgan then elaborated on unofficial illegal immigration numbers. “I think within the last 10-11 days, they actually had a single-day encounter of over 6,000. Have you seen that...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/24/2021 A new survey found that 42 million people from Latin America and the Caribbean region want to immigrate to the United States. “There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region. Gallup asked them if they would like to move to another country permanently if they could,” said Gallup CEO Jim Clifton, whose company conducted the poll, in an article on March 24. “A whopping 27 [percent] said ‘yes.’ This means roughly 120 million would like to migrate somewhere. “Of those who want to leave their...

Source: KWTX10 Date: 3/30/2021 ROMA, Texas (KWTX) - A special unit consisting of Texas Rangers rescued a 6-month-old girl allegedly thrown into the Rio Grande by smuggler who had just assaulted the infant’s mother, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The rangers involved in the rescue were members of the South Texas Special Operations Group, Texas Rangers Division. The unit assisted U.S. Border Patrol in the incident. DPS said the child’s mother suffered a broken leg after she was assaulted by the smugglers. According to a DPS Facebook post, the “specialized group is a highly...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/31/2021 White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday defended sending San Diego’s public school teachers to teach unaccompanied minors in person, while American students in the California city still entirely rely on remote learning. Psaki was questioned during a White House press briefing whether she think it’s fair that children who entered the United States illegally are being provided with in-person instruction at the San Diego Convention Center, while some 130,000 American children within the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) remain blocked from...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/31/2021 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris—the Biden administration’s point person on immigration issues—demanding answers and action on what he described as an “ongoing humanitarian crisis” amid the surge in illegal crossings that he blamed on the administration’s “open border policies.” Last week, President Joe Biden tasked Harris with stemming the rising tide of immigrants—many of them unaccompanied children—crossing the border illegally into the United States, saying it would be a “tough job” but that she was “the most...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 3/31/2021 Over 4,100 illegal immigrants, more than 3,400 of them unaccompanied children with some as young as 3 years old, were being kept in an overly crowded border facility in the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday. Two journalists from the Associated Press and a crew from CBS were allowed to visit the facility in Donna, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. It’s the first time during the Biden administration that journalists were allowed inside the main border facility for migrant children—the site was intended to hold 250 people. Last week, the Biden Administration allowed...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/13/2021 While intercepting illegal border crossers, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley recently arrested three convicted sex offenders and a gang member, the agency said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in an April 12 statement that, within a period of 72 hours last week, agents carrying out enforcement duties along the border arrested an MS-13 gang member and three sexual predators, including one who had been convicted for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14. On Friday morning, Border Patrol agents arrested a man...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/13/2021 A top official from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in charge of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children (UC) has described the surge of illegal border crossings as “unprecedented,” while adding that the temporary shelters that have been opened are providing “a crisis standard of care” to the minors. Cindy Huang, director of HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), made the comments in a sworn declaration to a federal court judge in a case related to the 1997 Flores settlement agreement, which sets the principles and guidelines...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/9/2021 Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris has not responded to his invitation to tour the southern border, criticizing the lack of response and insisting that the situation along the border is a “humanitarian crisis on so many levels.” “I guess if you were a philosopher you would say no response is a very loud response because we’ve not received any response,” Brnovich told Fox Business in an interview. Brnovich said Harris needs to “look into the eyes of people being smuggled across the border, being...