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Congressman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) has spearheaded a House effort to pass a version of the POLICE Act that passed the chamber Wednesday.According to the CATO Institute, at least 35 Border Patrol agents died in the line of duty through various causes between 2003-2019. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection website identifies another 63 agents who have died in the line of duty from 2020 to the present. The most recent incident of a Border Patrol Agent being killed in the line of duty while engaging illegal immigrants took place in December 2022, according to Fox News. The outlet reported that...

The Border Patrol union called the current crisis “the worst sustained disaster … ever seen at our border” — saying President Biden deserves to be arrested and that his administration is “absolutely corrupt to its core.” The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) tore into the end of Title 42 — the pandemic-era law allowing certain migrants to be booted — as Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz confirmed that “upwards of 60,000 migrants” are “staging in and around the immediate border area.” “This is by far the worst sustained disaster that any BP agent, active or retired, has ever seen at...

Biden admin to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track themBiden admin to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track themAfter more than 11,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border on Tuesday, the Biden administration is now preparing a memo that will direct Customs and Border Protection to begin releasing migrants into the U.S. without court dates or the ability to track them, according to three sources familiar with the plans. The Biden administration began releasing migrants without court dates to alleviate overcrowding...

EL PASO, Texas — Migrants seeking shelter on the streets of El Paso near Sacred Heart Church woke up to a letter from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol asking them to turn themselves in for processing. The letter, written in Spanish with no government logos, spread fear and panic amongst the migrants sleeping on the streets of El Paso. Advertisement Throughout the day, migrants started slowly clearing the streets near Sacred Heart Church. Volunteers are still arriving to pass out water and food during the hot May days of the Borderland. "It's just a human impulse. Anybody who isn't...

President of National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd warns that once Title 42 is lifted, the cartels are going to have complete control over the southern border. "Once Title 42 goes away and the explosion happens, they're going to control our entire southwest border," Judd said on the Wednesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "When they do that, that's when [the cartels] are going to be able to bring in all of their products such as the fentanyl, the dangerous drugs, the criminal aliens, and the aliens from special interest countries. All of that is...

The US Border Patrol is readying for the largest illegal migrant surge at the southern border in US history next week. Joe Biden is lifting Title 42 – Already, 700,000 to One Million illegals have assembled at the border ready to surge across the US southern border. Joe Biden has opened the borders to millions of illegal invaders. Title 42 is expected to be lifted on May 10th. 22,000 apprehensions were recorded at the border in the last 72 hours. It is remarkable that the White House would attempt to make this false claim on the same day the US...

The New York Times published a blockbuster report on Saturday that details massive nationwide child labor horrors taking place because of Joe Biden opening the border to unaccompanied children in 2021 after President Trump fought hard to shut down child trafficking. The children are working to pay off their debts to cartel traffickers and their sponsors here, as well as to send remittances to their families back home. The Times found children working in factories and plants of major American companies and their suppliers across the country. “Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, the Times found....

-excerpt- On "Mornings with Maria" Friday, host Maria Bartiromo detailed exclusive breaking news she received from border sources who claimed in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley alone, border agents are allowing 15 to 20 Chinese nationals per day to cross the U.S. border. Bartiromo also reported that her sources say many of these individuals have worked or are associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and are given a notice to appear in court before being released from Border Patrol custody. "They may or may not come back years later," Bartiromo added. "They're entering America with no questions asked after paying...

The Border Patrol under the Biden administration has been dropping migrants at local transit hubs after they are taken into custody after crossing the border, a San Diego County official told Fox News on Tuesday. Supervisor Jim Desmond said over the past four days, nearly 1,000 asylum seekers have been dropped at transit centers throughout the county... ...When asked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom's immigration-related policy platforms over his tenure, Desmond said Sacramento, like Washington, is not supporting San Diego at all ....

EXCLUSIVE — At least five people were involved in a maritime shooting between U.S. border agents and drug smugglers that took place off the coast of Puerto Rico early Thursday morning, the Washington Examiner was first to report Thursday. The shootout happened 14 miles off the coast of northwestern Puerto Rico. Three federal agents were shot, according to a federal officer and a statement from Customs and Border Protection. The agents were from the Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations arm. AMO agents work the air and sea to patrol for human and drug smugglers. The incident took...

No link yet, but local news in San Juan are breaking a story of a shoot out at sea between U.S. Border Patrol Agents and drug smugglers in the Mona Passage between the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter pulled the three agents from their boat and airlifted them to the big island of Puerto Rico. The helicopter had to initially land in the western city of Mayagüez to stabilize one of the agents, before proceeding to the San Juan Medical/Trauma Center. No word if the smugglers were wounded, killed, captured or...

Union urges voters to support candidates who will re-establish law and order at the border. After another clash with foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S., the union representing Border Patrol agents is urging Americans to vote on Nov. 8 for candidates who will defend them, the rule of law, and the southern border. On Monday, mostly single male Venezuelans, Mexicans and Hondurans crossed the Rio Grande River and attempted to illegally enter the U.S. near El Paso, Texas, and allegedly assaulted Border Patrol agents. The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing the agents, said, "Make no mistake, all of...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was told last year that there was no evidence Border Patrol agents had “whipped” or “strapped” Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border — hours before he bolstered President Biden’s lies about the incident at a press conference. A Sept. 24, 2021 email to Mayorkas from Marsha Espinosa, assistant secretary of DHS public affairs, highlighted an interview with the photographer who captured agents on horseback trying to corral migrants and block them from entering the US near Del Rio, Texas, according to Fox News.

EXCLUSIVE: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's claim that illegal immigrants aren’t just "walking across" the southern border has sparked anger and shock from Border Patrol agents — who witness hundreds of migrants flooding across the border every single day. "How out of touch can this administration possibly be?" one agent told Fox News. "Well, I guess this is a new level." Jean-Pierre was asked on Monday why migrants are allowed to illegally enter the U.S. without being vaccinated for COVID-19 but an unvaccinated foreign national traveling on a plane is not.

AJO, Ariz. - A toddler and an infant were hospitalized after they were found abandoned by a Border Patrol agent in the southern Arizona desert. The incident happened on Aug. 25 when an Ajo Border Patrol agent was informed by a group of arrested migrants that two children were traveling alone west of the Lukeville Port of Entry on the Organ Pipe Cactus Monument, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The Border Patrol agent immediately went to the area and found a 4-month-old child face down and unresponsive. An 18 month old was found crying nearby. Emergency medical technicians were...

A total of 376 law enforcement officers were at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas when a gunman was at large for over an hour on May 24, leaving 21 people dead. A majority of the officers were federal and state actors, including 149 US Border Patrol officers and 91 Texas Department of Public Safety officers. Twenty-five officers were from the Uvalde Police Department, and 16 were from the Uvalde County Sheriff's Office. "They failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety," according to an interim report released Sunday by the Texas House investigative committee...

Sheriff Roy Boyd of Goliad County, Texas, joined other law enforcement officials from his state last week to raise alarm about the border crisis that’s wreaking havoc in America. These local officials, who confront the consequences daily, are now calling it an “invasion.” Boyd, a seventh-generation Texan, recently spoke to The Daily Signal about what it’s like in Goliad County, the vicious cartels trafficking humans and drugs, and why the problem of illegal immigration is much worse than anyone realizes. “This is just a tidal wave of people coming across. It is an invasion. There’s no two ways about it,”...

You’ll recall the incident that occurred last September at the US-Mexico border when photographers caught agents on horseback using their long reins to control their horses as they tried to slow the onslaught of migrants illegally crossing the Rio Grande river into our country. The Biden administration immediately drew conclusions, saying the agents were “whipping” the migrants as if they were slaves. “To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped – it’s outrageous,” Joe Biden told reporters after the photographs surfaced. “I promise you, those people will pay.” The controversy was quickly debunked, and...

Brandon Admin To Punish Border Patrol Agents Who Were Cleared Of Wrongdoing For ‘Whipping’ Posted on June 15, 2022 by Constitutional Nobody Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly planning to discipline the U.S. Border Patrol agents who were accused of “whipping” illegal immigrants last year – despite an investigation clearing the agents of any criminal wrongdoing. “The [Department of Homeland Security’s] Office of the Inspector General, they had first crack at it,” Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told The New York Post in April. “They determined there was no criminal activity that was done so...

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to discipline "multiple" horseback Border Patrol agents involved in the infamous "whipping" incident of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border back in September. A federal source told Fox News an announcement on the matter is expected within the coming days.