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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will take the witness seat in Congress on Tuesday facing new questions about the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis and his own truthfulness in previous testimony about efforts to control the surge of illegal immigrants. . . . Read more about Mayorkas faces questions over honesty as Senate panel prepares to grill him on border crisis

Breitbart Texas reviewed preliminary arrest data indicating some migrant demographics encountered in October have increased upwards of 9,000 percent when compared to October 2020. The documents were provided by a source within Customs and Border Protection (CBP) not authorized to speak to media.

CBP does not normally release these data and instead will combine migrant arrests of citizens outside Mexico and northern triangle Central American countries as “Other.” . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: Venezuelan Migrant Apprehensions at Border Up 9000 Percent

An illegal alien has been arrested after allegedly attempting to lure a 13-year-old girl into his car in the sanctuary state of New Jersey, police say.

Francisco Ignacio Rosales-Flores, a 39-year-old illegal alien, was arrested by the Jackson Township Police Department on charges of second-degree luring a minor. . . . Read more about Sanctuary State NJ: Illegal Alien Accused of Luring 13-Year-Old Girl

An illegal alien has been accused of attempting to murder his co-worker with a box cutter on a construction site in Polk County, Florida.

Nelson Carpio Garcia, a 22-year-old illegal alien, was arrested and charged this month for attempted first-degree murder after police said he tried to kill one of his co-workers by slashing them with a box cutter. . . . Read more about Illegal Alien Accused of Trying to Murder Co-Worker with Box Cutter

LAREDO, Texas — Law enforcement from the Border Patrol, Webb County Attorney’s Office of Investigations, and a county constable raced into the Rio Grande to stop a fugitive from escaping to Mexico. On Tuesday, the officers rushed into the murky water to apprehend Jose Francisco Paz-Ruiz, a known member of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, according to police. . . . Read more about Los Zetas Cartel Smuggler Arrested in Rio Grande by Texas Police

Texas law enforcement officers arrested nearly 9,000 migrants for violations of state law under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The effort focuses on the enforcement of Texas laws violated by migrants after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. . . . Read more about Nearly 9K Migrants Apprehended Under Texas Border Enforcement Programs

Apprehensions along the U.S.–Mexico border in October set a new record for the month, unpublished data obtained by The Epoch Times show.

Border Patrol logged about 163,000 arrests of illegal immigrants at the northern and southern borders, according to the preliminary data, which does not include Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations (OFO). . . . Read more about Arrests of Illegal Immigrants at US–Mexico Border Set New October Record

ROMA, Texas — Human smugglers ferried more than 100 migrants into the downtown square Monday night. U.S. Army National Guardsmen assisted Border Patrol agents to line the migrants and march them into the city for transport. In what has become a nightly ritual, smugglers made short work of transporting the migrants into Roma from Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Smugglers Coordinate with National Guard to Ferry Migrants into South Texas

EAGLE PASS, Texas — In separate events, local Border Patrol Agents and their Brackettville-stationed colleagues apprehended migrants from two counties designated by the Department of Homeland Security as “special interest.” The arrests triggered immediate reporting to DHS headquarters. According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, the incidents occurred on Monday and involved one group of 13 Eritreans and a separate family of three from Uzbekistan. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: Migrants from Uzbekistan, Eritrea Appear at Texas Border

The number of migrants crossing the border without being apprehended since the start of Fiscal Year 2022 is more than 50,000, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection source. This figure represents an estimate of the total number of migrants believed to have escaped into the U.S. interior without apprehension by Border Patrol. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: 50K Migrants Elude Border Patrol in October