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A handful of Democratic senators in vulnerable election contests in November could decide whether there’s an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “We have to look at the impeachment documents first,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., told reporters Tuesday in a departure from his previous suggestion the impeachment amounted to “political games.” The Montana Democrat is in …

JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. – Around three dozen people, all but four of them men, stood in a line in an empty hiking trail parking lot. They held passports open for inspection. Clean duffle bags and backpacks sat at their feet, tagged with identical white labels from the Border Patrol agents processing them. All appeared to be in their 20s …

Latino Americans overwhelmingly say former President Donald Trump would be better for the economy and immigration than President Biden, according to a Thursday poll from Axios/Ipsos. The poll found that 20% of Latinos think Biden is “good for the U.S. economy,” while 42% of respondents said the same about Trump. When it comes to immigration, 22% said Biden is “good” …

MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers’ boat capsized in a storm about 50 kilometers ( about 30 miles) south of the island of Lampedusa, authorities said Thursday. Survivors indicated that the steel bottom boat had departed from Sfax, Tunisia overnight Sunday carrying 46 people from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali …

COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) — Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ramírez has prayed by the altar in her parents’ mud-brick bedroom where, under a large crucifix, is a picture of her sister Blanca. The 23-year-old died alongside 50 other migrants in a smuggler’s tractor-trailer in Texas. “I ask God for my family’s health and that I might get …

EXCLUSIVE: Republican senators are gearing up to prevent all legislative business in the Senate from going forward if they don’t get a full trial into the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Six sources told Fox News Digital that roughly a dozen GOP senators have been planning for more than a week to obstruct legislative proceedings and …

President Biden hinted in a new interview that aired Tuesday night that he is planning a possible executive order to effectively shut down the border by the end of the month. Univision’s Enrique Acevedo asked the president if he had decided whether to issue an executive order, and Biden indicated that it may be on the table. “Well, it’s suggested …

FIRST ON FOX — A top British MP and former home secretary is warning that governments in developed countries need to show the “political will” to limit immigration, both legal and illegal, that voters want “robust action” from their representatives and that the global migration crisis will be a major issue for voters in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Suella …

New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week shows that more than half of America’s foreign-born population lives in the country’s four most populous states — California, Texas, Florida and New York. The American Community Survey report also says the foreign-born population in the U.S. has also “grown considerably over the past 50 years in both size and …

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas deflected questioning Wednesday on Capitol Hill when he was asked about a Fox News Digital article stating that he has admitted to Border Patrol agents that the current rate of release for illegal immigrants apprehended at the U.S. border is “above 85%.” Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., was grilling Mayorkas about the statistic during a House …