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    Border Patrol Chief Retires as Reputation ‘Tarnished’ in False ‘Whipping’ Case, Mark Morgan Says
    Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz will retire at the end of June. Ortiz made the announcement to his staff in an email Tuesday night.   “After a 32-year Border Patrol career spanning multiple sectors, HQ tours, and overseas assignments in Afghanistan, I have decided to retire from federal service on June 30th,” Ortiz wrote. “I…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘I Don’t Want Any Other Parent to Live Nightmare That I Am Living,’ Woman Tells House Panel of Daughter, 20, Killed by Illegal Alien
    Less than a week after Kayla Hamilton turned 20, she was violently killed by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in her bedroom, her mother told a House subcommittee Tuesday. The suspect in Hamilton’s slaying is a 17-year-old unaccompanied alien child affiliated with MS-13 in El Salvador, according to Tammy Nobles, Hamilton’s mother.   “I don’t…
    Virginia Allen
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    WATCH: Border Patrol Blocks Media From Documenting Illegal Immigrants’ Entry Into US
    EL PASO, Texas— At midnight on Thursday evening, the pandemic-era rule allowing authorities to expel illegal immigrants at the southern border expired. A large group of migrants waited outside Gate 42 in El Paso, Texas, to enter the United States from Mexico. As reporters at the border in El Paso sought to document the illegal…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Co-Author of GOP Border Bill Explains Why It Passed the House While the 2014 Version Didn’t
    WASHINGTON, D.C.—Reps. John Rutherford, R-Fla., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., celebrated the passage of a Republican bill to secure the U.S.-Mexico border as Title 42 was set to expire on Thursday, explaining how the bill addresses the border crisis and warning that if the crisis isn’t solved, “This is going to get more people murdered.” The…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    House Passes Border Bill as Illegal Alien Encounters Surge on Southern Border
    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday aimed at securing the United States’ southern border and stopping the flood of illegal aliens entering the country.   “I was pleased to see provisions to restart construction of the border wall, end catch and release, and reinstate the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy included in this…
    Virginia Allen | Samantha Aschieris
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    WATCH: Illegal Aliens Stream Over Border Ahead of Title 42’s End
    EL PASO, Texas—In the waning hours of Title 42, the public health measure that enabled Border Patrol to expel illegal aliens from the border, The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan and Tim Kennedy traveled to El Paso, Texas, and captured footage of comparative calm before the expected storm. A Border Patrol agent told The Daily…
    Mary Margaret Olohan | Tyler O’Neil
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    Exploding Border Crisis May Mark Terminal Stage of Biden’s Presidency
    This may mark a terminal stage of President Joe Biden’s time in the Oval Office. On Thursday, the Biden administration finally will drop Title 42, a public health policy implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Trump administration that allowed for the quick deportation of illegal immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Inhumanity of Biden’s Border Policies
    The situation at our southern border negatively affects the lives of illegal immigrants as well as U.S. citizens. Although residents of other countries always have faced challenges in their journey to become American citizens, the Biden administration’s policies have exacerbated human and drug trafficking.   Migrants face several challenges on their trip to the U.S.-Mexico…
    Jacquelyn Kilcommons
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    What We Know About Unaccompanied Children Arriving at Southern Border
    A 10-year-old girl from Honduras arrived at the southern border unaccompanied by adults. She told Sheena Rodriguez that she hoped to stay in America, and wanted to “color and get to know my father.”  The Honduras girl is like so many other unaccompanied alien children, says Rodriguez, founder and president of Alliance for a Safe…
    Virginia Allen
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    Tony the Bouncer at Club America: A Parable of Title 42 and Border Security
    Immigration law is a maze of statute, regulation, and presidential whim. Explaining things like immigration parole, Title 42, and asylum is difficult. Here’s a parable to explain Title 42, a public health measure that enabled the quick removal of illegal immigrants, but that is set to expire. Imagine the hottest nightspot in town, Club America….
    Simon Hankinson
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    Biden’s 1,500 Troops Sent to Southern Border Are a ‘Welcome Wagon,’ Retired Border Patrol Agent Says  
    “It’s a welcome wagon,” a retired Border Patrol agent says of the 1,500 active-duty troops the Biden administration is sending to the southern border ahead of the expiration of Title 42 on May 11.   The troops will be helping with “non-law enforcement duties,” according to the Homeland Security Department, but Frank Lopez says that…
    Virginia Allen
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    The 6 Mistakes of Biden’s Emergency Immigration Plan
    You know that feeling on a Wednesday night when you’ve reheated the chili you made on Sunday for the third time and you can’t face it again so you throw it away and order take-out? That’s how I felt watching Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pitch the latest…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Dead Migrants, Dead Americans: Pro-Border Security Rally Highlights Scourge of Cartels and Fentanyl
    A photo of a skeleton laying in the Texas dirt flashed across the screen, followed by another, and another – all images of the remains of migrants who died from exhaustion or other causes after entering America illegally. “[President] Joe Biden is responsible for more dead people on the Texas border than any time in…
    Virginia Allen
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    House to Vote on Border Security Bill Same Week Title 42 Expires
    Lawmakers have the opportunity to pass what House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he believes is the “strongest border security package that Congress has ever taken up.”   What’s more, Scalise said, the plan is for the House to vote on the legislation next month, when a public health measure known as Title 42 is…
    Virginia Allen
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    Rep. Chip Roy’s Prescription to Secure Border: Use Power of Purse to ‘Bring President to His Knees’
    If America’s southern border is to be secured, Congress must “use the power of the purse to bring the president to his knees and [make him] sit at the table,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says.  President Joe Biden’s border policies are enriching China and harming the American people, Roy argues.  “The fact of the matter…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Plan for Health Care for ‘Dreamers’ Called ‘Back-Door Way to Give Taxpayer Subsidies to Illegal Aliens’
    President Joe Biden is proposing a plan for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to receive subsidized health care through Obamacare and Medicaid. If the plan is finalized, illegal aliens who were brought to America as children will be eligible for the health care programs. “[M]y administration is announcing our plan to…
    Virginia Allen
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    GOP Lawmakers Move Forward on Bill to Secure Border
    A group of House Republicans say they have a plan to secure America’s southern border, the Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023. The bill, when finalized, would grant the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security authority to suspend entry of inadmissible aliens into the U.S. in full or in part for the purpose…
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    New DC Law Allowing Illegal Aliens to Vote Is ‘Absolutely Insane,’ Former Immigration Judge Says
    Illegal aliens now are allowed to vote in local elections held in the nation’s capital. Under a new law, anyone who qualifies as a permanent resident of the District of Columbia can cast a vote in races for mayor, D.C. Council, attorney general, and neighborhood advisory boards, regardless of U.S. citizenship status. Now, the Immigration…
    Virginia Allen
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    Deadly Fire at Migrant Detention Center Sober Reminder of Chaos at Southern Border
    The fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico that claimed 38 lives is a sober reminder of the ongoing crisis along the southern border. About 70 men from South and Central America were being held in the migrant facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas, when the fire…
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer
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    70 Terrorist Watch List Encounters at Border. Real Numbers Are ‘Likely Much Higher,’ Congressman Says
    The number of individuals on America’s terrorist watch list encountered on America’s borders is growing.   Since the start of fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol has encountered 70 illegal aliens who are listed in the Terrorist Screening Database, also referred to as the terrorist watchlist, between ports of entry. The majority, 69, have been encountered on…
    Virginia Allen
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