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He is the wanted poster boy for the migrant crisis. A man who arrived in New York City two months ago from Venezuela has randomly attacked at least three strangers and two cops, and gotten arrested – and released – six times on 14 different charges, police and sources said. Daniel Hernandez Martinez, 29, arrived on June 27 and allegedly committed his first crime the following day. “He’s been wreaking havoc,” a cop with more than 20 years on the job said. “This is not an isolated incident. These migrants are getting arrested quite often here, and we really don’t...

Rishi Sunak is under intense pressure to do more to tackle the small boats crisis following the “appalling and preventable” tragedy which saw the deaths of six people when a vessel sank off the coast of France. Fresh calls for action come as it emerged that another 509 people crossed the English Channel in 10 small boats on Saturday, despite the perilous crossing, bringing the total for the year so far to 16,679. Senior Conservatives joined Labour in attacking “dysfunctional” Home Office for failing to tackle the “out of control” asylum system – but some Tory MPs appeared to blame...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is suggesting suburban communities step in and help with the city’s growing immigrant problem. Opponents say Johnson is holding contradictory public policy opinions on the city’s sanctuary status while at the same time – like his predecessor – moving immigrants to the suburbs. "We see some real support on the horizon," Johnson said in an Aug. 2 press conference, regarding landing spots for the thousands of immigrants the city has attracted in recent months. Johnson’s comments come as the state’s undocumented population has soared to an estimated 511,000. Chicago alone hosts around half that population, a...

he number of migrant families with children crossing the southern border has nearly tripled in the past two months, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by NBC News, feeding concern among some senior administration officials about a potential uptick in overall migrant crossings. Earlier this week, more than 2,230 migrants were crossing the border daily on average, up from 790 in early June. While single adults are still the largest demographic seen at the border, families are the fastest-growing demographic of undocumented border crossers, according to the data. Most of the migrants are from northern Central America and...

Mexico’s National Guard is escorting a new migrant caravan traveling through southern Mexico as the group makes its way to the U.S. border. The new caravan comes when tensions continue to build in the U.S. where Texas has set up barriers on the waters of the Rio Grande to deter migrants from making the dangerous Rio Grande crossing. The caravan consists primarily of Venezuelan migrants along with a small group of African and Haitian migrants that joined the group this week. The migrants are trying to make their way north from the state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, to reach...

Government officials in Massachusetts have realized that they suddenly have a lot of people arriving who don’t have a place to stay. And while neither they nor the mainstream press seem eager to discuss the specifics, these aren’t just homeless Bostonians who have fallen on hard times. They are migrants, most of them illegal, who have been showing up by the busload just as we’ve seen in almost every state by this point. (“Every state is a border state during the Biden border crisis.”) Governor Maura Healey is well aware that there aren’t enough rooms in shelters to accommodate them...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for installing razor wire barriers in the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. "Texas has been installing these buoys along with razor wire on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. Mexico is now requesting that Texas remove these barriers. They say the state is violating international treaties and that they raised this with the administration three weeks ago. Do you agree with Mexico that Texas is violating these international treaties?" a reporter asked. "This governor … has treated the situation that we're seeing at the...

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How many illegal aliens are in the US today? And by illegal alien I mean anyone that has entered the US illegally or overstayed their entry visa or simply have been lost or overlooked after entry. The latter I figure might include people claiming asylum, for example, not getting a court date, and no follow-up. So, broadly, anyone in the US who should not be here.

MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes -- beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death, dismembering them. Demonic acts. If you think these crimes won't happen where you live, keep reading. The gang's rule is "kill, rape, control." Members are required to kill. MS-13 brings terror to neighborhoods and even schoolyards. In the New York City area, MS-13 has been linked to more than 65 murders since 2009. President Joe Biden could care less. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is cracking down, jailing tens of thousands of suspected gang members and causing others to flee...

(Pittsburgh is rolling out the Welcome mat for them as follows) “We’ve been working with a variety of agencies to put together a little bit of a 'welcoming committee 'so anyone who does come here will have an opportunity to get some rest while they wait for a bus,” said Maria Montano, press secretary for the mayor’s office. Montano confirmed to Channel 11 that a group of approximately 1,200 was expected to arrive in Pittsburgh sometime this weekend.

The US government has announced it’s sending 1,500 troops to the southern border with Mexico to “supplement” Border Patrol forces, but the troops aren’t there to protect the border and have instead been tasked with “data entry”, logging information about illegal aliens before they’re turned loose and let into the United States. With Title 42 border protections, which allow for the rapid deportation of illegal aliens, expiring in the coming days, the Biden Administration has claimed it’s moving to secure the southern border, but new information confirms that Joe Biden and company are preparing to do the exact opposite and...

he group is in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in hopes of reaching Mexico City, where they plan to pressure government officials to provide them with exit visas or legal documents that would allow them to continue their journey to the United States border. The asylum-seeking caravan, which is largely composed by individuals from Central and South America as well as China and other Asian countries, had threatened to block roads or cause self-injuries Monday unless the Mexican government agreed to meetings or supply buses that would transport them to the capital. 'We are asking the government to give...

@Steve_Laws_ 497 illegal immigrants arrived on 11 dinghies yesterday in the UK.

Continuing a COVID-19 pandemic trend, Americans are moving to the South and Southwest and from cities to the suburbs in search of more space and homes they can afford, recent government data indicates. Immigration, which is bouncing back from pandemic lows, helped mitigate population loss in major cities. A Stateline analysis of U.S. Postal Service change-of-address data from mid-2022 through March shows Americans continue to pour into suburbs and small cities in the South and Southwest. The same trends showed in recently released U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for mid-2021 to mid-2022. “There is an acceleration of previous trends away...

A non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and backed by a litany of multinational corporations is teaming up with American Express to fly migrants into the United States. The NGO, called Welcome.US, was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden’s administration in resettling some 85,000 Afghans across the U.S. in 2021 and 2022, as Breitbart News reported extensively at the time.

A startling 50% of migrants streaming into the Big Apple are not vaccinated against the contagious and potentially deadly poliovirus, city Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan recently revealed — as he urged doctors to help prevent a public health emergency, The Post has learned. Vasan also said the new migrants come from, or pass through, countries with high rates of infectious tuberculosis — and noted there’ve been outbreaks of chickenpox in shelters housing the newcomers. “More than 50,000 people have come to New York City (NYC) in the past year shortly after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. As more people arrive and...

Eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges will be expanded to include hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to access government-funded health insurance programs, continuing moves Biden began in 2021 to offer U.S. taxpayer resources to illegal migrants and their children. As Breitbart News reported, Biden took $2 billion from Americans’ healthcare programs to help deliver migrant youths and children to their illegal-migrant parents throughout the United States in 2021.

Italy's coast guard said difficult sea conditions were affecting the rescue. The boat is one of two vessels carrying migrants currently being assisted by the Italian coastguard. The second is carrying around 800 people and is said to be overcrowded. The country's coastguard has already rescued around 2,000 people in other operations since Friday, after a number of boats arrived at the Italian island of Lampedusa, one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach Europe, over the weekend. At least two migrants died and around 20 others were missing after their boat sank on Saturday night, German...

More than 1.6 million foreign nationals have been apprehended or reported evading law enforcement officers after illegally entering the U.S. in fiscal 2023 through February, according to Customs and Border Protection apprehension data and gotaway data obtained by The Center Square. When reporting February enforcement data, CBP stated nationwide total encounters for fiscal 2023 through February totaled 1,285,056, excluding gotaways. Including monthly gotaway totals previously reported by The Center Square based on data obtained by a Border Patrol agent, at least 358,124 known gotaways in the nine southwest border sectors fiscal year were recorded through February. Combined, apprehensions and gotaways...