Illegal Immigration News

In a move to kill two birds with one stone, the Trump administration is simultaneously tackling both illegal immigration and the U.S. housing crisis. In a “Memorandum of Understanding” signed Monday, the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Housing and Urban Development agreed to work together to ensure that taxpayer-funded public housing is afforded to American citizens,…

The border crisis of the past four years will repeat itself unless members of Congress understand the “failure” of President Joe Biden’s border policies, according to Rep. Michael Guest, chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.  “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it,” Guest, R-Miss., told The…

It’s “beautiful” to see more Border Patrol agents back on the southern border since President Donald Trump entered the White House, Efrain Sella said.   Sella spent 25 years with the Border Patrol before retiring in 2019. Speaking with The Daily Signal at the Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association's March meeting, he said…

The Mexican cartels appear to be smuggling drugs into the U.S. inside cows, according to sources interviewed at the border in Texas and New Mexico last week. The cartels are known to use cattle cars to smuggle drugs, but also seem to be using the cattle themselves as couriers.   “When they do the spaying…

LUNA COUNTY, N.M.—A Border Patrol helicopter flew overhead in a sight Russell Johnson said was a rarity over his ranch until President Donald Trump returned to the White House.  Johnson says he would like to see an even greater Border Patrol presence along New Mexico’s border with Mexico, but agents “have at least some presence on…

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal immigration authorities arrested several hundred criminal migrants in a massive Houston operation that spanned only several days. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the…

Democratic mayors, testifying Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, consistently minimized the problems associated with their “sanctuary city” policies, which limit local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with federal border enforcement—and urged Republicans not to carry out deportations.  Their assertions were met with considerable pushback by border security hawks, however. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, for…

The Pentagon is surging about 3,000 active-duty troops and other resources to the U.S. southern border as aggressive efforts continue to stop the flow of illegal immigration.   The Department of Defense announced Saturday that it's sending a Stryker Brigade Combat Team and a General Support Aviation Battalion to the U.S. border with Mexico. The…