Tag Archives: border

Texas Republican introduces bill requiring CBP to screen migrants against federal terrorist watch list

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, will introduce a bill in the House of Representatives this week that would require federal immigration authorities to screen all migrants who come across the U.S. border against the FBI’s terror watch list. The measure, the Identifying Potential Terrorist at the Border Act of 2024, would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) …

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DHS’ failure to file paperwork has led to 200K immigration court cases tossed under President Biden: TRAC

Since President Biden has been in office, immigration judges have thrown out approximately 200,000 deportation cases because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not file the required “Notice to Appear” (NTA) by the time of the scheduled hearing, according to a report published Wednesday. The report from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which tracks immigration case data and backlogs, …

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Sheriff slams Biden for abandoning Texas on border: ‘No longer US-Mexico border, but US world-border'

Terrell County, Texas Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland spoke to Fox News Channel about the state of the U.S. southern border on Wednesday, defending his state’s move to arrest suspected illegal immigrants and ripping President Biden for doing nothing to deal with the migrant crisis. “America’s Newsroom” anchor Bill Hemmer prompted the discussion by asking Sheriff Cleveland about SB 4, a controversial …

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Ignore FBI director's urgent warning about terrorist threats at our own peril

During the annual congressional briefing on the top “worldwide threats” facing the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently issued a warning that terrorist threats have reached a “whole other level” from the already heightened situation. Wray revealed that the intelligence community has not seen the type of threat of terrorist attacks that is emerging now “in a long, long …

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Arkansas Gov. Sanders deploys National Guard to aid Texas with migrant crisis: 'Ready to assist'

FIRST ON FOX: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help Texas in its efforts to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis — just as Texas’ efforts to tackle illegal immigration got put on ice. The Arkansas National Guard will send 40 Guardsmen to support Texas National Guard efforts between April 1 and May 30, …

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Mexico slams Texas over immigration law, won't accept repatriations from state after SCOTUS ruling

Mexico came out Tuesday against Texas’ immigration law that allows for the arrest of people suspected of illegally crossing the southern border following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, saying it won’t accept the return of its citizens from the Lone Star state. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said SB 4 criminalizes migrants, encourages the separation of families and racial discrimination and profiling. …

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House Republicans demand DHS provide docs on deportations of brothers of Laken Riley's accused killer

House Judiciary Committee Republicans are demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas provide documents about the previous deportations and other information on the two brothers of Laken Riley’s accused killer – two men from Venezuela who were also in the United States illegally at the time of the Georgia nursing student’s brutal slaying. Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and …

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Supreme Court OKs law letting Texas police arrest migrants suspected of illegally crossing border

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce a law that allows local police to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally – marking a significant but temporary win for the state’s efforts to control illegal immigration across the border with Mexico. The ruling comes a day after the court extended a block on the state law at …

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Top Democrat in tight Senate race backs citizenship, voting rights for millions of illegal immigrants

The Democrat frontrunner in what could be one of the most unexpectedly tight Senate races this year recently declared his support for granting citizenship and voting rights to the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. Speaking at a candidate forum in Bladensburg, Maryland, earlier this month, Rep. David Trone, who represents the state’s 6th Congressional District, argued illegal …

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Massachusetts Gov Healey's 'things will happen' comment on migrant rape case spills into NH gov race

New Hampshire Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte on Tuesday torched Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s recent comments on a migrant rape case in the Bay State. Healey, a Democrat, recently was asked on camera by Boston 25 News about the case against Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old migrant from Haiti who is charged with raping a 15-year-old disabled girl at the Comfort …

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