US arrests nearly 200,000 undocumented migrants in 2 months

Rafts ferry migrants across the Suchiate river at the Mexico-Guatemala border. Mexico has detained 74,000 undocumented migrants since December 1, of whom 53,000 have been deported Almost 200,000 undocumented migrants were arrested in March and April after crossing the Mexico-United … Read More

20 metro areas are home to six-in-ten unauthorized immigrants in U.S.

Most of the United States’ 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants live in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. … Read More

1,036 migrants, with 63 unaccompanied children, become largest single group ever taken into custody at southern border

A caravan-sized group of more than 1,000 people was taken into federal custody in western Texas Wednesday after illegally crossing from Mexico into the United States, a senior Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner. Agents encountered 1,036 people, primarily from … Read More

Dozens of migrants test positive for flu at Texas processing center where 16-year-old boy who died was held

SAN DIEGO — More than 30 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center where a flu-stricken teenage boy died, the latest evidence of growing public health threats posed by inadequate facilities to deal with a surge … Read More

Former ICE chief suggests Democrats are to blame for migrant children dying

Former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency chief Tom Homan struck at out Democrats over their “open border attitude” on Monday, blaming Democratic lawmakers for the recent deaths of migrant children held under federal custody. In an interview with Fox … Read More

Trump to Illegals: Don’t Get Comfy, You’re ‘Leaving Soon’

A day after unveiling the administration’s merit-based immigration reform proposal amid a national emergency on the southern border, President Donald Trump tweeted a warning for illegal immigrants: “do not make yourselves too comfortable, you will be leaving soon!” President Trump’s early Friday morning … Read More

Pentagon Redirects $1.5 Billion To Fund Border Wall

The Defense Department said Friday it will redirect $1.5 billion from other military projects to fund President Trump’s border wall. The Associated Press reported the funds would be diverted in part from the Afghan Security Forces Fund, from a project … Read More

Latest Border Numbers Show Worsening Crisis

Fund the president’s spending request, now. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last week released its latest numbers of U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions between the ports of entry and aliens deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry. Those numbers reveal a worsening … Read More

The new head of ICE says US facing worst crisis on the southern border in ‘modern times’

WASHINGTON (SBG) – For the final six months of the Obama Administration, Mark Morgan was in charge of U.S. Border Patrol, but removed from office the day after President Trumpwas inaugurated. Recently named the new head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also … Read More

Migrant caravan goes global, attracts refugees from across world trying to enter US

TAPACHULA, Mexico – Last October, when the first major caravan of mostly Central American migrants rushed Mexico’s southern border and made its way to Tijuana, officials here said it was the beginning of what has become a constant flow of unprecedentedly large migrant groups bound for … Read More

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