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When President Biden took office in January 2021, he promised to transform how the United States treated asylum seekers and restore the humanitarian protections devasted by his predecessor. But by the end of 2021, as apprehensions hit levels not seen in 20 years and over 1.5 million people arrived at the border and crossed for the first time, Border Patrol agents carried out over 1,000,000 expulsions and deportations, including the mass expulsion of Haitian migrants to a country that the United States had just said weeks earlier was too dangerous for deportations. This fact sheet aims to provide historical context...

Eagle Pass, TX - Upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden halted construction on the U.S. southern border wall, which greatly helps Border Patrol and local law enforcement cut down on illegal activity. As a result the Texas National Guard, deployed last summer through Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, has stepped in to fill the gaps with fencing lined with concertina or razor wire. “When you drive a tank through a chainlink fence, if it has concertina wire on top, it’ll stop that tank because that wire will get wrapped up on the sprocket, the wheels of...

Biden administration officials on Tuesday laid out their border and immigration enforcement plan, as a pandemic-related border security exception draws down. The Trump-era policy known as Title 42 is due to sunset May 23, despite increasingly vociferous Republican attacks that its end will spell doom for border management.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Tuesday outlined its plan to tackle border security, pushing back against criticism that it is unprepared for a late-May deadline to lift COVID-19 restrictions that have blocked asylum seekers and other migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border since early 2020. Many of the elements of a six-point plan presented on Tuesday had been announced before but the outline "memorializes" the administration's ongoing efforts, a senior official who declined to be identified told reporters. The DHS plan focuses on surging resources to the border, speeding up processing of migrants, increasing the use of fast-track deportations, building...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) reacted to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stating that the death of Texas National Guard Spc. Bishop Evans took place during an operation and efforts “directed” by the state of Texas, not the federal government, “if the Biden administration was very simply enforcing the laws passed by the United States Congress and securing our border.”

One thing must be conceded to Joe Biden: he is consistent in messing things up. The recent “fast-tracking” of Ukrainian refugees is the latest Orwellian boondoggle that accomplishes the opposite of its stated goals -- just like Build Back Better, transgender transformation of the nation, racial agitation, and monetizing debt to “help” the economy. This reverse-Midas touch has now been inflicted on suffering Ukrainian refugees, who are being stopped from finding safety in the false pretense of “helping” them. In march, the Biden administration announced the United States would accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. There were no stated conditions for entry,...

Greg Kelly breaks down President Biden's total 'dereliction of duty,' and how the 46th president has 'lied' his entire adult life. - via Greg Kelly Reports, weekdays at 7PM ET on Newsmax

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) warned that impeachment could be on the table for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a trip to the southern border with other GOP lawmakers. The border trip is meant to kick off a week where Republicans plan to seize on the issue to bolster their midterm election chances — and to put the pressure on Mayorkas, who is set to testify to the House three times on Wednesday and Thursday.

Morale among Border Patrol agents is at an “all-time low” as they face massive, unprecedented border numbers as well as a looming end to the Title 42 public health order, which is expected to further fuel the overwhelming surge. “The agents are upset. I’ve never seen agents so upset as I have under what is currently going on,” Brandon Judd, head of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) told Fox News Digital in an interview. And now, Fox News reports that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said Monday that his office obtained a temporary restraining order blocking the Biden administration...

The body of the Texas National Guard member who went missing while attempting to rescue migrants from drowning while crossing into the U.S. from Mexico was found Monday, Fox News has learned. Texas Army National Guard Specialist Bishop E. Evans, 22, went missing near Eagle Pass Friday while attempting to rescue two migrants who "appeared to be drowning while crossing the river from Mexico into the U.S.," according to the Texas Military Department. Multiple sources tell Fox News that Evans body was found and recovered in Eagle Pass, Texas Monday morning. Rep. Tony Gonzales’ office separately told Fox News Digital...

Joe Biden is the king of the cartels. https://t.co/shs9azGwg5— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 25, 2022Before todays congressional delegation at the border, I was able to speak with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) briefly about the passing of National Guard Spc. Bishop Evans, who’s body was recovered today.He died trying to save drowning migrants crossing into U.S. pic.twitter.com/zGzyQ6CXKx— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) April 25, 2022

<p>Beginning Monday, the United States will launch a program welcoming Ukrainian refugees into the states but they will no longer be allowed in through Mexico. Instead, they will only be able to seek asylum through Europe.</p><p>In 2022, the United States government announced the expectation to receive 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.</p>

'Life, Liberty & Levin' host Mark Levin breaks down what it means for someone to believe in 'America First.'

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted nine human smuggling attempts utilizing tractor-trailer rigs during the past week. The searches of the trailers led to the apprehension of nearly 500 migrants from this single method of conveyance. Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Carl E. Landrum tweeted images from the failed human smuggling attempts. Many were disrupted by the use of K-9 teams at interior immigration checkpoints.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is leading a delegation of Republican lawmakers to the southern border in Texas on Monday, his office announced on Saturday. McCarthy and nine other Republicans will be traveling to the southern border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in the minority leader’s second congressional delegation to the southern border this Congress, his office noted.

resident Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Monday amid a growing divide within the Democratic Party over when the administration should consider ending a Trump-era policy of turning back immigrants at the border based on public health concerns. The issue has been a thorny one for Biden. The president has disappointed advocates with his actions on immigration and the slow speed at which he has worked to reverse restrictive Trump-era policies. But immigration officials within his administration are reportedly wary that if the order is lifted at the end of May as scheduled, a...

A Texas National Guard soldier has drowned while trying to rescue migrants in a river at the state’s border with Mexico, multiple sources told Fox News on Friday. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed the incident in Eagle Pass and said that a body has been recovered. This is a breaking news story; check back for updates

The alien invasion across America’s porous southern border has turned every state into a border state – and every Fake News editor into an agent and a cheerleader for a foreign occupation army. Here in Maine, 2400 miles northeast of the Texas border, we are the final destination for thousands of illegal immigrants who are being resettled here at taxpayer expense, to the applause of all the really smart people in both political parties. When I attempted a few weeks ago to push back against a fellow Republican’s praise for the invasion and the invaders, I was confronted once...

A group of 26 Republican governors is launching a multi-state partnership to secure the southern border as the number of migrants being detained and appearing at the border continues to increase. The American Governors’ Border Strike Force will target cartels and criminal groups by increasing collaboration, improving intelligence, combating human smuggling, and stopping drug flow among each of the participating states, according to a group memorandum outing its mission. "President Biden has failed to secure the border, and it has deteriorated into a warzone that is threatening all of our communities," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told Fox News. "South...

Almost half of Democrats say they are “not at all worried” about President Joe Biden’s mass migration into Americans’ jobs and homes, according to a Gallup poll. Forty-four percent of Democrats say they are “not at all” worried about illegal immigration, according to the poll of 1,017 adults, which was taken March 1-18.