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A total of 22 House Republicans sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week expressing “serious concern” to the Biden administration over an “unprecedented surge in apprehensions” seen along the northern U.S.-Canada border amid an “orchestrated” crisis. Leading the charge were Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., co-chairs of the Northern Border Security Caucus, along …

Eagle Pass, Texas, has been one of the hot spots of the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border – as well as the epicenter of a broader stalemate between Texas and the Biden administration over how to handle the crisis, which has led to multiple high-profile battles in the nation’s highest courts. Drone footage taken by Fox News on …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Americans shared whether President Biden should give in to the Mexican president’s demand for $20 billion a year for Latin American countries in exchange for help combating the illegal immigration crisis, with many telling Fox News that complying with a foreign nation’s ultimatum would make the U.S. look weak. “I don’t think we should pay their demands,” …

Are you better off than you were four years ago? That question was asked by Ronald Reagan during a decisive 1980 debate with then-President Jimmy Carter. Only about 1 in 5 voters today answers yes, according to the latest Fox News national survey. Just 22% say they are better off than four years ago, while more than twice that many …

A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canadian border had been warned of blizzard conditions before he arranged for four members of an Indian family to cross in 2022, prosecutors allege. The parents and two young children froze to death. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who prosecutors say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” is due in federal court …

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., on Wednesday praised Elon Musk for spotlighting Democrats’ united opposition to his proposed amendment aimed at stopping the Biden administration from using federal funds to charter flights for illegal immigrants. “This is insane!” Musk wrote in an X post showing Hagerty’s Senate floor speech that amassed nearly 40 million views. Hagerty, weighing in Wednesday on “America’s …

New York City officials are defending a pilot program that hands out prepaid debit cards to illegal immigrants. The mayor, deputy mayors and other officials have defended the city’s trial run of the program, saying that the prepaid cards are intended for use purchasing essential supplies and not frivolous handouts. “There is no free money. These are not ATM cards. …

Officials in New York City have begun giving out prepaid debit cards to migrant families residing in the Big Apple. The first batch of debit cards, which are reportedly meant to be used by the illegal immigrants to purchase food and baby supplies, were handed out Monday to a handful of migrant families in the city, New York City Mayor …

A man who is wanted in El Salvador for murder and other crimes related to death squad killings in the country’s civil war has been deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Alvarado Benitez, 75, was deported by ICE officials in Philadelphia Friday and turned over to law enforcement authorities in El Salvador for his role in the killings, according …

More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the U.N. migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty to other countries. Governments around the world have repeatedly pledged to save migrants’ …