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    Meet a Son of Mexican Immigrants Who Helps Protect Our Border
    Art del Cueto, a leader of the union representing Border Patrol agents, has spent a majority of his career patrolling the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation in Arizona. Del Cueto says he has seen the drug war firsthand.   “They’re obviously smuggling numerous amounts of drugs through these areas … hard drugs, cocaine, methamphetamines, fentanyl,” del…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    We Hear You: Biden, the Border Crisis, and Flights for Illegal Immigrants
    Editor's note: The Daily Signal's exclusive on illegal immigrants allowed on a commercial flight out of Texas made some in our audience see red, as did our continuing coverage and commentary about the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's some of what's in the mailbag at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I am so sick…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Border Officials Arrest Over 178,000 Illegal Immigrants in April, Keeping Pace With March Surge
    Border officials apprehended over 178,600 migrants along the southern border in April, up 3% from March, Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday. The agency encountered around 17,100 unaccompanied migrant minors in April, compared to just under 19,000 in March, according to Customs and Border Protection. Officials apprehended a total of 173,300 migrants in March. Nearly 14,000 of the unaccompanied…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    Firsthand Accounts of Illegal Immigration Surge: Observations From Front Lines
    The Daily Signal recently traveled to Cochise County, Arizona—which shares 83 miles of border with Mexico—to see firsthand how the illegal immigration crisis is affecting those who work and live on the U.S. side of the southern border. Brandon Judd, a Border Patrol agent and president of the National Border Patrol Council, told The Daily Signal…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Despite Migrant Surge, ICE Deportations Fall to Record Low Under Biden Administration
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials performed a record low number of deportations in April despite illegal border crossings occurring at a 20-year high, according to the agency. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deported 2,962 immigrants in April, a 20% decline from March, an agency spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. The April numbers…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    How TSA Explains Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Fly With You
    The Transportation Security Administration has an “established process” for identifying illegal immigrants who board domestic flights to a new home in America, a spokeswoman told The Daily Signal, although the Biden administration formally refers to this population as “undocumented.” The TSA was responding to a Daily Signal report Friday about such commercial flights carrying illegal…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Immigrants Fly American, Courtesy of Biden Border Policy
    About 14 separate families or groups of illegal immigrants boarded a flight Thursday at McAllen International Airport in Texas, the man in charge of border security during the Trump administration told The Daily Signal. Mark Morgan, former commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said he watched from a nearby seat as the illegal immigrants…
    Fred Lucas
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    Far From Southern Border, Illegal Immigration Hurts Idaho, Lawmaker Says
    Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, isn’t from a southern border state, but he says illegal immigration still adversely affects the Gem State. “I mean, drug and sex trafficking impacts everyone,” Fulcher says. “And we’re feeling the effects of that,” he adds. “Our citizens, our taxpayers as well. We have to pay for services through federal taxes…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Biden’s Border Security Pick Backs Amnesty, Opposes Wall
    President Joe Biden’s pick to run border security has tweeted or spoken regularly against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and opposed a border wall.  Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson, Arizona, is Biden’s nominee for commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Magnus also has cited…
    Fred Lucas
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    Over 172,000 Migrants Encountered at Southern Border in March
    More than 172,000 migrants were encountered at the southern border in March, according to Customs and Border Protection. Officials apprehended nearly 19,000 unaccompanied migrant minors, around 53,600 family units, and over 99,000 single adults, according to Customs and Border Protection. Encounters were up 71% in March from February. “CBP has experienced an increase in encounters and arrests. This is…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    Leaked Numbers on Illegal Immigration Called ‘Undeniable’ Proof That Biden Policies Sparked Border Crisis
    President Joe Biden’s policies undeniably contributed to border agents arresting a record number of migrants in March, Heritage Foundation immigration experts said Friday. Customs and Border Protection reportedly encountered over 171,000 illegal migrants in March 2021, a 400% increase compared to March of 2020, according to preliminary figures reported by The Washington Post. Heritage Foundation researchers Lora…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    What You Need to Know About Biden Administration’s Illegal Immigration Claims
    The Department of Homeland Security said two weeks ago that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s administration is claiming that border crises happen every year and that former President Donald Trump’s policies didn’t reduce illegal crossings. Lora Ries, senior research fellow for homeland security…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Arizona Sheriff 60 Miles From Border Sees Spike in Arrests of Illegal Immigrants
    A sheriff whose Arizona county is 60 miles from the southern border says his county is experience a direct impact from the flood of illegal immigrants streaming into the U.S. from Mexico.   “We just this morning had a procedure where we chased a car,” Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb told The Daily Signal in an…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    We Hear You: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants and Other Hot Buttons
    Editor's note: We have a feeling we're going to get more mail on the recent surge of migrants to the southern border than on most other topics. So let's dip into the mailbag at [email protected], sampling this and other concerns.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I appreciated Fred Lucas’ article on “6 Key Aspects of Biden's…
    Ken McIntyre
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    ‘We Warned Them’: Trump Immigration Official Talks Border Crisis
    The Department of Homeland Security said last week that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades. On top of that, both Fox and NBC reported that illegal aliens are being released into the U.S. without court dates for asylum request hearings, but on Monday, White House press secretary…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    House Passes 2 Immigration Bills as Border Crisis Intensifies
    The House passed two separate immigration bills Thursday evening, marking the first time the 117th Congress has voted on the issue under President Joe Biden. The pair of bills are the first immigration proposals to be voted on since a surge of migrants reached the southern border, resulting in heightened scrutiny of the Biden administration…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Biden’s Disastrous Border Policy Shows Zero Planning
    Can you spell “hypocrite”? I’m starting to think that it begins with the letter “B” and rhymes with “widen.” Democrats were scathing critics of the Trump administration’s border policies. They were quick to lambaste former President Donald Trump for “caging children” in squalid conditions and tearing babies from their mothers’ arms. Democrats held up these…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Biden’s Illegal Immigration Agenda Creates Another Child Smuggling Crisis
    Having been involved in public policy for nearly four decades, I’ve all too often seen the unintended consequences of liberals’ misguided compassion. And long before getting involved in public policy, I experienced those consequences myself as a black child living in a housing project in the 1950s. Now, I’m watching that misguided compassion wreak havoc…
    Kay C. James
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    5 Things to Know About Agriculture Amnesty Bill
    The House of Representatives is expected this week to take up one of the most egregious immigration amnesty bills in recent memory, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. In 2019, the House passed the bill, but fortunately, it went nowhere in the Senate. Now, the new Congress is taking it up.  The legislation would, among other…
    Daren Bakst
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    Texas Rancher Says Illegal Immigrants Repeatedly Damage His Property and Trash His Land
    Illegal immigrants have torn down fences, left “bricks of marijuana,” and even stolen vehicles from a ranch near Carrizo Springs, Texas, and it’s happening more frequently since the election of President Joe Biden, a rancher told The Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. The changes in visible foot traffic around the ranch increased in the months…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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