(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The American Civil Liberties Union and the Federal Defender's Office for the Eastern District of California will appear before the Supreme Court to argue for Helaman Hansen, who is being charged with encouraging illegal immigrants to cross the border.
In defense of their client, ACLU argues...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court canceled oral arguments scheduled for March 1 in a case filed by Arizona and 18 other states against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and several federal officials and agencies.
President Joe Biden has said the national public health emergency issued...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A multiagency operation led to the arrest of more than 200 people allegedly engaging in human trafficking in Polk County, Florida. More than half of the victims were smuggled into the U.S. illegally through the southern border, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Of the 24...
(Headline USA) Texas's Republican Gov. Greg Abbott offered no hints about whether he might run for president in a rare primetime address Thursday night. Instead, he used his biennial State of the State address to make a case that common-sense immigration measures, tougher criminal penalties and a humming state...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. has significantly increased under the Biden administration, beginning around the 2020 election, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Nationwide, 18,395 Chinese nationals were apprehended in fiscal 2020; 23,471 in fiscal 2021; 27,756 in fiscal...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Border Patrol agents in Minnesota and North Dakota continue to apprehend foreign nationals brought in by human smugglers in the dead of winter and illegally crossing the northern border from Canada.
Instead of flying from Mexico and other countries to Canada to enter legally through ports...
(Headline USA) Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., introduced a bill this week that would force the Biden administration to restart construction of the southern border wall.
The Build the Wall Now Act -- which is the first piece of legislation Budd has introduced since taking office in January -- would remove...
(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Establishment star RINO Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., returned to his old ways last week by proposing a bill giving amnesty to 2 million illegal aliens.
Graham has teamed up with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to sponsor their "Dream Act," according to Breitbart News.
The bill is a...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – Newly released polling data shows that as people living in or entering the country illegally continues to soar, Americans’ feelings on the issue are changing.
Gallup released new polling data showing that Americans’ satisfaction with the current immigration level has declined to 28%, a...
(Headline USA) Florida lawmakers voted last week to expand Gov. Ron DeSantis’s migrant flight program sending immigrants who have illegally crossed into the state to leftist “sanctuary” cities and states.
The new bill, passed on Friday, permanently establishes the “Unauthorized Alien Transport Program,” allowing the state to send immigrants to...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Roughly six weeks before testifying Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez held a meeting with local law enforcement in Weslaco, Texas, describing the administration’s plan to release en masse illegal foreign nationals into the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Shortly before Tuesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the border crisis began, Democrats released a statement accusing their Republican counterparts of using the meeting to “amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories.”
https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1622948948263555073?s=20&t=7INwXDH04PGz60F7WVKNqg
This didn’t sit well with African--American Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., who expressed disgust at the race-baiting tweet.
"My...