(Thérèse Boudreaux,, The Center Square) In an epic breakdown of negotiations, Congress is leaving town without voting on Republicans’ roughly $72 billion budget reconciliation bill.
Senate Republicans ultimately deadlocked Thursday over whether to include restrictions on the Department of Justice’s controversial new “anti-weaponization fund” within the party-line bill, which funds...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal entries into the U.S. in April remained significantly lower than during the Biden administration but are slightly up from what they were in April 2024 and over the last few months, according to newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
Illegal border crosser...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump mounted a forceful defense of Chinese student visas on Fox News, cautioning that expelling half a million foreign students from American campuses would cripple universities across the country, Breitbart News reported.
During his Thursday appearance on "Hannity," Trump resisted pressure to curtail Chinese...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A federal judge has banned most arrests by ICE agents in several New York City immigration courts, siding with civil liberties groups that sued to stop the practice.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel prevents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) A Minnesota prosecutor announced Monday criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in connection with the non-fatal January shooting of a Minneapolis man.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said ICE officer Christian Castro is being charged with four counts of second-degree assault and...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A record more than 100 million lethal doses of fentanyl have been seized at the southwest border in the past six months.
The seizures were made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents working out of 54 ports of entry (POE) in California, Arizona, New...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., last month having declared that the pro-election-integrity SAVE Act was now off the legislative agenda entirely, a few “America First” lawmakers were stepping up to fill the gap.
On Friday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.,...
(Headline USA) Six people who were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, Texas, were from Honduras and Mexico and included a 14-year-old boy, all part of a human smuggling effort, authorities said Thursday.
Police released more details about the discovery made Sunday in Laredo, near the U.S....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged Tuesday that the Biden administration should have tightened border security sooner — a stunning admission given that he served as DHS secretary for nearly the entirety of Biden’s four-year term.
Mayorkas, the first cabinet secretary impeached by the House in nearly 150 years, made...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Over the past seven years, Border Patrol agents working in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Detroit Sector have seized the greatest volume of drugs at the northern border.
The CBP Detroit Sector area of responsibility covers four states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. It...
(Headline USA) A South Texas medical examiner believes heat stroke may have led to the death of six people thought to be immigrants who were found Sunday afternoon inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the Mexico border in Laredo, Texas.
The people were found Sunday...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A gun smuggling operation run by Canadian, Pakistani and Jordanian citizens has been thwarted at the U.S.-Canada border, authorities said.
While illegal border crosser crime has dropped considerably at the U.S.-Canada border from the Biden administration era, border crime is still ongoing, including human, drug...