Just as illegal immigrants rushed the southern border in El Paso, Texas, the Biden administration is locked in a months-long legal battle with Gov. Greg Abbott over a controversial anti-illegal immigration law. What is S.B. 4? Senate Bill 4 was passed by the Texas legislature and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in December. The law allows police to arrest those …
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EL PASO, Texas – While crossings have slightly slowed down at the southern border in El Paso, the city is trying to cope with housing a large number of migrants in the area for longer than expected. On Friday, March 1st, the City of El Paso’s online migrant dashboard showed 1,135 encounters for the previous day. On Dec. 19, for …
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Social media users ripped White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for suggesting on Friday that viral video showing illegal immigrants rushing the Texas National Guard at the southern border should be Gov. Greg Abbott’s concern, not President Biden’s. When asked if Biden had seen or weighed in on the “dramatic” video of the migrant surge, Jean-Pierre replied, “I mean look, …
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FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans introduced a bill on Friday cracking down on the federal government’s use of a controversial mobile app to identify illegal immigrants traveling via airplane to the United States. The CBP One app was first introduced during the Trump administration for cross-border transit at ports, but it was expanded last year by the Biden administration to …
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A Cyprus government proposal to enable repatriations of Syrian refugees by designating specific areas within the country as safe zones is “gaining ground” among the island nation’s fellow European Union member states, the Cypriot interior minister said Friday. Minister Constantinos Ioannou said after talks with European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas that it’s the “conviction of several states that the …
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A reporter who witnessed a migrant stampede at the Texas border said the situation escalated into “absolute chaos … in a matter of seconds” as adult males charged past National Guard troops. Jennie Taer, a New York Post reporter, recounted what unfolded in El Paso on Thursday, explaining how hundreds of migrants were able to breach the border area and …
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A boat carrying a group of migrants ran into trouble off the coast of southeastern Spain killing at least three people and several others were believed missing, authorities said Friday. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said in a statement that two survivors and three bodies were found on a partially sunken boat off the coast near the town of Motril. The …
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A former senior Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF) official warns that a federal court’s finding that illegal immigrants have gun rights protected by the Constitution could pose a danger to law enforcement. Last week, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman in the Northern District of Illinois ruled that a federal prohibition on illegal immigrants owning firearms is …
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A 20-year-old Mexico resident has pleaded guilty to smuggling seven migrants into the U.S. illegally through sewer pipes in southern California, federal prosecutors say. Kevin Noe Campos Villa now faces a potential 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his arrest in January, during which several of the migrants he was escorting had to be rescued from the …
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The U.N.’s migration agency expressed alarm Friday over the discovery of a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants in the deserts of western Libya. Earlier this week, Libya’s criminal investigations authority reported the grave had been found in the Shuayrif region, 220 miles south of the capital, Tripoli. On its Facebook page, it said 65 bodies …
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