President Biden’s recently unveiled border security policy will likely do little to fix the surge in crossing attempts at the southern border, according to an immigration policy think tank. “At present, the government is offering neither investment nor solutions,” reads an American Immigration Council analysis of the Biden policy. “It is essentially crossing its fingers that the asylum system will …
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Authorities nab 8 suspected terrorists with ties to ISIS in multi-city sting operation
Eight Tajikistan nationals with ties to ISIS were busted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force in three major cities, a federal source confirmed to Fox News. The arrests took place in New York City, Los Angeles and Philadelphia in recent days, according to the source. All …
Read More »Biden admin pushes to reopen immigrant detention center amid lingering COVID-era freeze
The Biden administration is calling on a federal judge to unfreeze an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, which has been largely empty due to a COVID-era order that has still not been lifted. The Department of Justice, in a filing last week, requested that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Eastern Division lift a …
Read More »California agrees to repay feds $52M in ‘improperly claimed’ immigrant Medicaid disbursements
The state of California recently agreed to repay more than $52 million in what a federal inspector general determined were “improperly claimed” Medicaid reimbursements for “noncitizens with unsatisfactory immigration status[es].” An audit, concluded in late May but first reported Monday, underlined that federal Medicaid benefits are usually limited only to citizens and “qualified” noncitizens. Examples of qualified noncitizens are refugees, …
Read More »Unaccompanied minors represent themselves in federal court as migrant cases surge
Nearly half of the unaccompanied minors making their way through immigration courts have been unable to secure legal counsel, according to a new report, a growing issue as the backlog of court cases continues to surge. One expert who spoke to Fox News Digital said those numbers may be exacerbated by young adults posing as minors and snatching up scarce …
Read More »1M illegal immigrants could be given 'amnesty' as Biden faces pressure from left wing
President Biden has hinted that more liberal moves on immigration could be coming in the weeks ahead, and reports suggest that, in response to left-wing pressure on the issue, he is considering a deportation shield for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. Last week, Biden announced an executive order to limit the ability of illegal immigrants …
Read More »CBS host shocked by poll showing 62% of registered voters support deporting all illegal immigrants
CBS News host Margaret Brennan on Sunday appeared perplexed by the results of a recent poll that showed majority support for deporting all illegal immigrants. “Homeland Security says that President Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the past year than any year since 2010. And then, depending on the details of what’s talked about on the campaign …
Read More »Border Patrol memo tells agents in key sector to release migrants from nearly all Eastern Hemisphere countries
An internal Border Patrol memo, obtained by Fox News, instructs agents in the San Diego sector to release single adults from all but six countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and classify them as “hard” or “very hard” to remove. The memo was sent out after President Biden’s executive order banning asylum for most illegal immigrants took effect last week. Biden …
Read More »Previously deported migrant accused of murder in Las Vegas
An illegal migrant with a long criminal record who has previously been deported from the U.S. is now accused of second-degree murder in Las Vegas. Jorge Miranda, a 46-year-old migrant from Ecuador, faces murder and other charges after allegedly selling fentanyl to a 45-year-old man who later died of an overdose, according to a report from KLAS. Police say Miranda …
Read More »Thousands of migrants sneaking into US daily despite Biden's border order
The first full day after the announcement of President Biden’s executive order restricting asylum for most illegal immigrants appeared to have no immediate impact on the massive number of migrants coming across the southern border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources tell Fox News that Border Patrol apprehended about 4,000 illegal immigrants between ports of entry at the southern border …
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