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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody won another round against the Biden administration in federal court, this time in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. On Monday, the court ruled to keep in place an injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s parole program. The injunction was issued by a federal district judge in Florida last month. DHS appealed the judge’s ruling and lost. On May 8, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell of the Northern District of Florida Pensacola Division vacated DHS’s “Policy on the Use of Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention to Decompress Border Locations.” On May 16, he...

All the hoopla over the end of Title 42 was for naught, we are told by the media. We’re told the amount of people entering dropped drastically. Is the border under control? It depends on what you mean by “under control”. If by “under control” you mean the Biden Rush is over, then no. But if by “under control” you mean border policy is following the administration’s agenda, then yes.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the practice of transporting migrants because of the "pressure" it puts on non-border states and cities, a statement that kicked over a beehive of criticism online. During Monday's press briefing, Jean-Pierre appeared to echo those blue state concerns and her admission that unchecked immigration overwhelms localities amused many conservatives. "I’ve said it many times from here repeatedly from this podium that bussing or flying migrants around the country without any coordination with the federal government - we’ve talked about this, state or local officials as well - is dangerous and unacceptable," she said....

A plane carrying migrants landed in Sacramento on Monday, just days after a chartered flight with 16 migrants on board landed in the city Friday, officials said. About 20 people were on Monday's flight, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general said. Documentation indicated both flights were linked to the state of Florida.

The free-for-all America has witnessed at the southern border (5 million “encounters” and 1.5 million gotaways) has been ongoing for the last 30 months. Many books will be written about the series of policy decisions (and plain ol’ gross negligence) that led to the daily chaos. Indeed, the storylines are limitless, given the width and depth of this travesty. But there are specific subplots worthy of special consideration by those attempting to fully understand how we ended up here. Herein follows seven of those storylines: 1. On the heels of the scheduled lapse of the Title 42 pandemic health restriction,...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading an 18-state lawsuit against the Biden administration over its handling of the border crisis. The lawsuit specifically focuses on a new policy called the “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways,” which the Department of Homeland Security says intends to “expand safe and orderly pathways for migrants to lawfully enter the United States.” The rule was put in place following the expiration of Title 42 in early May and led to a massive influx at the southern border that the Biden administration has struggled to contain. The lawsuit argues that the policy, which is also referred...

President Joe Biden’s border deputies are doubling the inflow of illegals through the “CPB One” pathway, regardless of a multi-state lawsuit against the likely illegal process. The monthly inflow will rise to 38,750 each month, allowing 465,000 illegal migrants to be registered and released each to take U.S. housing, jobs, and government aid. Other channels created by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, bring the planned inflow to almost one million illegals.

Govs. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) and Henry McMaster (R-S.C.) on Wednesday announced they’re joining a number of their fellow Republicans in sending National Guard troops from their states to the southern border at the request of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R). “The ongoing border crisis facing our nation has turned every state into a border state. As leadership solutions at the federal level fall short, states are answering the call to secure our southern border, reduce the flow of fentanyl, combat human trafficking and address the humanitarian crisis,” Youngkin said in a statement.

With the Biden administration preparing to end Title 42 on Thursday, and Texas bracing for the coming onslaught, several border security measures were approved in a meeting of the Texas House that lasted until nearly 2 a.m. The centerpiece bill, however, was defeated after House Speaker Dade Phelan sustained a point of order on the bill, sending it back to committee past the deadline for bills to be considered.

Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump did not accomplish draining the swamp or securing the border. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “If you think that culture war issues are too much of a focus for candidates like DeSantis or Trump, what do you think they should be focusing on? What would you, theoretically, if you decide to run, focus on?

he city Department of Education is ignoring pleas to help an Upper West Side public school so overwhelmed by an influx of migrant kids that it can no longer provide popular programs due to a lack of space, angry parents told The Post. With 535 students currently crammed into PS 145 – nearly 100 more than what the West 105th Street school is designed to hold – parents said all students, including newcomers from Ukraine, Russia, and Latin America, are suffering for it. Last year, the school had 393 students. Since the fall, after the city enrolled scores of young...

Illegal immigrants are coached to voluntarily withdraw their asylum claims, return to Mexico, and then return to the United States on humanitarian grounds, according to a U.S. Border Patrol union leader. Manny Bayon, a National Border Patrol Council union spokesman in San Diego, told The Epoch Times on May 26 that migrants who enter the United States illegally in Yuma, Arizona, are being bused to the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry in San Diego County. From there, he said, they are returned to Mexico but are allowed to re-enter the United States by applying for “humanitarian parole”...

Massive and ever-growing backlogs in NYC immigration courts mean migrants who want to become US citizens have to wait about three years to have their cases heard — and up to a decade to complete the entire process. At least 127,000 pending cases were mired in court at the start of the month and that number is expected to exponentially grow as the one-year deadline to file for asylum approaches for the more than 70,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City in recent months. The backlog is fueled by New York’s sanctuary city status — and asylum applicants...

Ron DeSantis says he co-opted the MAGA agenda in 2018 to get elected as Governor of Florida.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told reporter John Stossel in a recent interview that his famous 2018 “build the wall” campaign ad backing President Trump and the construction of a wall on America’s southern border was a “satirical” publicity stunt meant to feign support for the MAGA movement and manipulate the anti-Trump media into playing the ad on TV, giving his campaign more recognition among voters.John Stossel interviewed Ron DeSantis ahead of his official presidential campaign announcement and asked him about his famous 2018 gubernatorial...

A migrant smuggler dropped a 4-year-old boy from the top of a roughly 30-foot US-Mexican border wall last week, federal officials said. Surveillance footage released Friday by Customs and Border Protection captured the terrifying moment an adult smuggler sitting atop the wall dropped the child to the ground near San Ysidro in San Diego. The smuggler then immediately hops down the barrier to aid the 4-year-old and join a second, older child who was the first to make it over the wall last Monday, CBP said in a press release. A 4-year-old was dropped from the border barrier by an...

The influx of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border continued through April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Border Patrol encountered 3,182 migrants from China at the U.S.-Mexico border in April alone, according to CBP data. Chinese migrants often pay hefty smuggling fees to reach the U.S., where they have been found with large sums of U.S. currency, according to Border Patrol agents who recently spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. In total, Border Patrol has encountered 9,711 Chinese migrants at the southern border between October 2022 and April, marking an already roughly 393% increase compared...

At around 9:30 p.m., the agents were told that reports indicated shots had been fired near the home of a “named individual” and a tribal officer went to the location to look for the person, with the agents following in separate cars, the statement said. A few minutes after arriving, the police officer and the agents encountered a man outside of a home near their parked cars, authorities said. The man threw some kind of object toward the officer that landed a few feet away from his feet and then “abruptly extended his right arm away from his body and...

The influx of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border continued through April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Border Patrol encountered 3,182 migrants from China at the U.S.-Mexico border in April alone, according to CBP data. Chinese migrants often pay hefty smuggling fees to reach the U.S., where they have been found with large sums of U.S. currency, according to Border Patrol agents who recently spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. In total, Border Patrol has encountered 9,711 Chinese migrants at the southern border between October 2022 and April, marking an already roughly 393% increase compared...

Biden’s Border crisis is a national nightmare. I cannot imagine the long-term impact of his malicious negligence. But one thing occurred to me regarding our need to get a handle on what is going on and who is coming in and what they are. According to the Selective Service System Web site, undocumented aliens, asylum seekers, etc., are required by law to register with Selective Service: “Immigrants “U.S. immigrants are required by law to register with the Selective Service System 30 days after their 18th birthday or 30 days after entry into the United States if they are between the...

New footage shows a Chicago police station filled with mattresses and dozens of illegal migrants, as the city struggles to house the hundreds of border crossers arriving there each day. Officials in Chicago have said they cannot afford to rent hotel rooms for the more than 8,000 migrants who have arrived in their city and have pushed for more federal funds to cover costs. Due to the lack of available shelters, some migrants have turned to police stations for a safe place to sleep. Videos and photos showed hallways at a Chicago precinct littered with mattresses and personal belongings with...