EAGLE PASS, Texas—Despite a U.S. Supreme Court order allowing federal agents to remove razor wire being used along Texas’s southern border, the state has not made any moves to take down existing fencing, and is pressing ahead with previously scheduled razor wire installation. “We have to do something” Staff Sgt. Rene Cordova, with the Texas […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and some 60 House Republicans visited the west Texas border town of Eagle Pass, where customs officials recently recorded more than 4,000 contacts with illegal immigrants on a single day. The visit calls attention to the nation’s dysfunctional immigration system, which has allowed more than 6.5 million people to cross […]

Mexico’s president said he has been discussing with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the possibility of merging the American continent into an EU-style of governance. “Mr. Blinken talked about consolidating the North American region, and we agreed on that,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said during a press conference last month. “Not only did […]

Families of slain children in Uvalde called for the resignation of Texas’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steve McCraw during a public meeting in Austin on Oct. 27. Citing the abject failure of the department’s response to the school massacre on May 24 and the ensuing confusion caused by McCraw’s “misinformation after misinformation” during […]

Border Patrol agents in the El Paso area have apprehended more than 38,500 illegal immigrants in the 21 days since Oct. 1—averaging almost 13,000 per week, according to provisional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by The Epoch Times. In January, agents in El Paso arrested an average of 4,500 per week. As with […]

The entity that determines the vaccination schedule for children in Texas was quick to adjust its website on Oct. 20, hours after advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a recommendation to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the children’s immunization schedule. After a state representative expressed his concern, the Texas Department […]

In Florida, eight women were rescued by law enforcement last week after being forced into sex trafficking to pay off their smuggling debts. Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the smuggling and sex trafficking operation. One man, Amet Maqueira De La Cal, smuggled the eight women into the United States from Cuba, according […]

Department of Homeland Security agencies have issued 255,602 smartphones to illegal aliens during fiscal year 2022, according to data on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website. The phones are trackable and the alien is responsible for checking in with ICE on a regular basis, often by sending in a geo-tagged photo of themselves. The […]

The school district’s police department in Uvalde has been suspended, and the acting police chief placed on administrative leave, according to an announcement by Anne Marie Espinoza, spokesperson for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD). “Recent developments have uncovered additional concerns with department operations,” Espinoza wrote in an Oct. 7 email. “As a result […]

Three parents of children who survived the May 24 Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, have sued the school district as well as law enforcement agencies, the former school police chief, and an AR-15 rifle manufacturer. Plaintiff Corina Camacho is the mother of a 10-year-old boy who survived, but was shot in the leg […]

Local and federal law enforcement recently rounded up 21 suspects in Arizona who solicited and/or brokered deals for various sex acts with children. The “children” were undercover detectives who “placed ads on websites commonly sought out by suspects seeking illegal sex acts,” according to the Surprise Police Department, located in Maricopa County, Arizona. “Operations of […]

Mexican cartels are officially terrorist organizations in Texas, according to a designation applied by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in a Sept. 21 executive order. “Fentanyl is a clandestine killer. And Texans are victimized by Mexican cartels that produce and import it. So cartels are terrorists. And it’s time that we started treating them that way,” […]

Unaccompanied children who cross the U.S. border alone are potentially being placed in dangerous situations due to the lax vetting of the adults they’re being handed off to, says a whistleblower who works with a company that transports the minors around the United States. An unaccompanied child who crossed the U.S. border illegally without a […]

Gone are the days when most illegal border crossers are easy-to-return single, male Mexicans looking for work. Almost three-quarters of the nearly 200,000 people apprehended along the southern border in July were foreign nationals from countries other than Mexico, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Of the 200,000 illegal aliens encountered, 99,000 were […]

Four Guatemalan nationals have been charged with conspiring with others to smuggle “large numbers” of illegal aliens into the United States, including one woman who died during the journey and was dumped on the side of a road. Felipe Diego Alonzo, 38; Nesly Norberto Martinez Gomez, 37; Lopez Mateo Mateo, 42; and Juan Gutierrez Castro, […]

UVALDE, Texas—The school in which 19 children and two teachers were massacred on May 24, had been in lockdown four times in the month prior to the shooting, said Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin. Schools in the whole district had been in lockdown mode 47 times since February due to the border crisis spilling into the […]

Border apprehensions recently topped 1.7 million, with three months of the fiscal year remaining. At the same time, the Biden administration has broken a long-standing policy of publicly releasing the number of illegal immigrants who die while crossing into the United States, or soon after. The Rio Grande Valley in Texas and the Tucson Sector […]

Nine months after horse patrol agents were accused of “whipping” illegal immigrants at the border in Del Rio, Texas, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus said an internal review found “no evidence Border Patrol agents struck any person, intentionally or otherwise.” “The investigation concluded that there were failures at multiple levels of the […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took an unprecedented step on July 7 toward mitigating the border crisis, issuing an executive order that directs state law enforcement officers to apprehend illegal immigrants and return them to a port of entry at an international bridge. “I … do hereby authorize and empower the Texas National Guard and the […]

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Local officials in small Texas counties are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to label the border crisis an “invasion” and use his constitutional authority to stop illegal immigration. Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan signed a local disaster declaration on July 5 that requests Abbott to “immediately prevent and/or remove all persons violating the […]