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Axios article: Illegal border crossings hit decades-low amid Trump hardline crackdown Axios says the reason may be: The data suggest that President Trump’s hardline immigration approach — especially along the U.S.-Mexico border — may be achieving its goal, even as the administration has not stopped all noncitizens without papers from entry. The Washington Post article: The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the Mexican border….

The two Jordanian nationals were previously released on bail. The Biden-Harris administration's Department of Justice has quietly and mysteriously dropped the charges against two Jordanian nationals who allegedly attempted to breach a Virginia military base in May. Hasan Yousef Hamdan and Mohammad Khair Dabous, both in the country illegally, were accused of attempting to enter Quantico Marine Corps Base near Triangle, Virginia, while posing as Amazon delivery drivers, Blaze News previously reported. The two Jordanian nationals were previously released on bail. The Biden-Harris administration's Department of Justice has quietly and mysteriously dropped the charges against two Jordanian nationals who allegedly...

Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has unveiled a plan to override Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) proposal to fund border security and immigration enforcement activities at roughly half the amount favored by Senate and House Republican leaders. Paul created an uproar two weeks ago when he unveiled his portion of the Trump agenda megabill that would spend $6.5 billion on completing President Trump’s border wall and $22.5 billion on expanding detention facilities for migrants. Now Graham has answered with a move of his own, unveiling a proposal to restore funding for the border wall and Immigration...

Patel’s warning echoes The Bureau’s exclusive reporting on a criminal convergence linking CCP-backed chemical suppliers, Iranian proxies, and Mexican cartels operating through Vancouver superlabs. WASHINGTON — In an explosive Sunday interview that will place tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Liberal government, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party operatives, and Iranian threat actors have forged a new axis of criminal cooperation, using Canada’s porous northern border and the Port of Vancouver—not the southern Mexican border—as their preferred entry point to flood fentanyl and terror suspects into the United States. “In the first two,...

When asked if President Joe Biden will secure the southern border, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said: “Yes.” At the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked the senator: “Will President Biden secure the southern border?” Booker replied, “Will President Biden secure the southern border? Yes!” In a follow-up question, CNSNews.com asked, “Do you know if he’s making any efforts to do so now?” Booker, who serves on the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees, responded, “Again, you can look at the news and see what he’s doing. That’s a question you might want to ask him.” In the first week of...

A new Center for Immigration Studies video report provides exclusive footage from the El Paso sector of the U.S. southern border, highlighting a newly constructed road that is enhancing border security.

We were reliably informed that in order to secure our border we had to grant amnesty to criminals and allow millions of illegal aliens to enter the country in a year. "American border problems won’t be fixed until Congress acts,” then-President Joe Biden declared during his 2023 State of the Union Address, urging Congress to pass his “comprehensive immigration reform” plan. The “comprehensive immigration reform” plan that Biden pitched would have granted amnesty to an estimated 11 million illegal aliens who broke the law and treated America as nothing more than an economic opportunity zone to be exploited. Biden’s approach...

Since President Donald Trump took office on January 20 his deportation task force, led by Border Czar Tom Homan, has wasted no time getting to work by green lighting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids all over the country. But leaks from inside the Department of Homeland Security have often foiled plans and allowed dangerous criminal aliens to get ahead of law enforcement. EXCLUSIVE: We were embedded w/ ICE as part of a massive federal operation in Aurora, CA targeting Tren de Aragua gang members. But the op fell far short of its goals, possibly due to leaks to the media...

Breitbart News @BreitbartNews @Sec_Noem: "If you try to enter illegally, you will be caught, you will be removed—and you will NEVER return." From Secretary Kristi Noem 8:58 PM · Feb 17, 2025

At the end of Trump's first term, he pardoned Bannon for the exact same case, immediately afterwards, The State of NY charged Bannon, given how various Trump supporters went to prison for bogus charges, this was probably the best Bannon could hope for in the State of NY.

The Trump administration gave the former highest-ranking woman in the military just three hours to leave her home following her ouster over her support of diversity, equity and inclusion policies. President Trump fired Coast Guard commandant, Admiral Linda L. Fagan, almost immediately after he took office on January 20 - leaving her to discover the news while waiting to take a photo with Trump at the Commander in Chief ball that night. Still, Fagan continued to live at her government-funded home on Joint Base Anacostia Bolling until she was abruptly evicted on Tuesday

The mysterious duo who were pulled over in Coventry, Vt. in the deadly shootout are leftist trans militants with alleged ties to a trans terror cell allegedly involved in three other homicides. On Inauguration Day, the shocking news that a US Border Patrol officer had been shot dead near the Canadian border in Vermont in an incident involving a now-deceased foreign national was overshadowed by coverage of Donald Trump's events in the nation's capital. One week later, a 21-year-old Washington woman was charged over the deadly incident, but little has been reported about her and her deceased accomplice, a German...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Republican senators introduce legislation to help Trump complete border wall From justthenews.com 8:12 PM · Jan 27, 2025

Donald Trump has revealed what could be the fate of nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) staff, suggesting he might 'move them to the border'. Hours after he was handed over the presidency, the Republican leader signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until 'his Administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so'. Apart from the IRS, the decision is temporary for all other federal offices. He also froze funding for the Inflation Reduction Act commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law. President Trump's order has since...

A federal judge in the District of Vermont sentenced a Mexican national to prison following his conviction for smuggling nearly 100 migrants across the Canadian border into the U.S. The Mexican national received approximately $500,000 in smuggling fees during a five-month period. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New York announced that District Court Judge Mary Kay Lantheir sentenced Luis Fernando Barragan-Palacios, 29, of Queens, New York, to federal prison for a term of 18 months. Barragan-Palacios, originally of Oaxaca, Mexico, is expected to be deported upon the completion of his sentence. ... According to prosecutors, Barragan-Palacios failed...

The suspect fired on two U.S. Border Patrol agents during a vehicle stop in Vermont leaving one agent dead. A second shooter, a female, is in custody. One suspect in the fatal shooting of a border patrol agent on Monday near the U.S. northern border was a German citizen with an expired H1-B visa, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the incident and an internal report reviewed by Just the News. The suspect, who fired on two U.S. Border Patrol agents during a vehicle stop in Newport, Vermont, is identified in the incident report as Felix Bauckholt, a...

The Port of entry in El Paso was shut down after Trump sworn in as President

President-elect Donald Trump denounced the New Orleans truck attack that left 10 people dead in the early hours of New Year’s Day as an “act of pure evil” — and suggested the suspect wasn’t American. Mp> “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true,” Trump, 78, posted on his Truth Social. “The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before.” Trump issued the...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Multiple people are dead after the New Orleans Police Department reports a car may have plowed into a group of people on Bourbon Street. It happened around 3:15 a.m. at the intersection of Bourbon Street and Iberville.

FAST FACTS At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured after a driver plowed a car into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street in New Orleans at approximately 3:15 a.m. ET on New Year's Day City officials said 30 injured people, including a police officer, have been transported by NOEMS to five local hospitals Police plan to hold a news conference Wednesday morning to discuss the incident