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‘It’s Total Chaos’: Sherriff Describes Current Border Security Situation in Eagle Pass, Texas
As the waves of people crossing the southern border continue to surge, we hear from the sheriff of the county neighboring Eagle Pass, Texas. This is the fastest route between San Antonio and Mexico, and is often referred to as “La Puerta de Mexico”—or Mexico’s Door. Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe was in Eagle Pass […]
Texas Senate Approves Bill Creating New Crime for Illegal Border Crossing
The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would create a new crime for foreign nationals who enter the state illegally and authorize law enforcement to arrest any offender anywhere in the state. The bill, SB 2424, cleared the state Senate last week in an 18–12 party-line vote. It would create a new state-level criminal […]
Border Patrol Encounters With Chinese Nationals at Southern Border Up 719 Percent
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered 2,999 Chinese nationals at the southern border so far in fiscal year 2023—a 719 percent increase year over year, according to CBP data released on Feb. 10. The total also exceeds the amount recorded for the entirety of fiscal year 2022 (Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, […]
Dramatic Border Video With Kids Surfaces Amid Crossing Surge
PHOENIX—As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole beneath a border wall despite an officer’s demands on the other side that they return to Mexico. “Return back!” the agent yells in one of two Customs and Border Protection videos released on April 2. “Don’t do that! Look at […]
Girl Dies Looking at Her Phone While Crossing Train Tracks
A 15-year-old girl was killed by a train while crossing the tracks looking at her cellphone. A child who saw what happened said that Evie Wright “kept looking down at her phone like she was checking the time” before the train struck her, Metro reported. A coroner found no evidence that the girl purposely tried to […]
UK and France Step up Measures to Deter Migrants Illegally Crossing the Channel
The French government is to deploy the Navy and use drones, radar, and CCTV to tackle the rise in the number of migrants trying to reach the UK in small boats. French interior minister Christophe Castaner said the tightened security, for which the UK is providing financial support, would “put an end to these crossings.” He […]
American Wins Race for First Unaided Solo Antarctica Crossing
An American man has become the first person to cross the Antarctic solo and unaided, dragging a 375-pound sled, including supplies, coast to coast via the South pole on the same journey that two years ago left a British explorer dead. On Nov. 4, Colin O’Brady, 33, started the 930-mile trek, which he dubbed “The Impossible […]
Father and son cross Atlantic Ocean in record-breaking time
A father and son boating duo is celebrating a win for the record books. Nico and Vittorio Malingri crossed the Atlantic Ocean faster than a lightning strike and are the envy of all boaters. They crossed in 11 days, 1 hour, and 9 minutes. That’s 10 hours and 16 minutes faster than the previous record […]
Hundreds of migrants break into Spanish African enclave of Ceuta
More than 300 African migrants jumped the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday morning (February 20), the second mass push since Friday (February 17), emergency services said. Eleven people were hospitalised after jumping over the 6-meter barbed-wire fencing surrounding the North African enclave, the Red Cross said. On Friday, […]