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NumbersUSA
November 28, 2022
Breitbart
November 16, 2022
EAGLE PASS, Texas — A source within Customs and Border Protection says an announcement was sent to Border Patrol ordering them to immediately discontinue using Title 42 authority to expel applicable migrants from the United States on Tuesday. The source, not authorized to speak to the media, says “the nightmare is just beginning for us — there is no ‘Plan B’.”
The operating instruction to Border Patrol comes after a court ruling was issued on Tuesday ordering a halt to the use of Title 42 to expel certain migrant cohorts. The ruling was issued by United States District Judge Emmet G...
FAIR: Federal Judge Knocks Down One of the Last Remaining Barriers to Complete Anarchy at the Border
FAIR
November 15, 2022
“Since the moment he took office, President Biden has intentionally worsened an unprecedented surge of illegal migration, with Title 42 serving as the last constraint on his plan to completely abandon enforcement at our southern border. This is a fact that was recognized by border officials and lawmakers in both parties. This decision will lead to a skyrocketing of illegal entries, most of whom the Biden administration will simply process and disperse around the country.
“The initial ruling that kept Title 42 in place prevented the border crisis from becoming much worse, but based...
FAIR: Federal Judge Knocks Down One of the Last Remaining Barriers to Complete Anarchy at the Border
FAIR
November 15, 2022
“Since the moment he took office, President Biden has intentionally worsened an unprecedented surge of illegal migration, with Title 42 serving as the last constraint on his plan to completely abandon enforcement at our southern border. This is a fact that was recognized by border officials and lawmakers in both parties. This decision will lead to a skyrocketing of illegal entries, most of whom the Biden administration will simply process and disperse around the country.
“The initial ruling that kept Title 42 in place prevented the border crisis from becoming much worse, but based...
Breitbart
November 15, 2022
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he is invoking the “Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions” to protect the state from the record-setting influx of migrants. Nearly two-thirds of all migrants illegally crossing the border enter through the five Texas-Based Border Patrol sectors.
Governor Abbott tweeted on Tuesday morning that he invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions in order to protect citizens of the State of Texas from the continuing border crisis created by changes in border security and immigration policies under the Biden...
Breitbart
November 10, 2022
An illegal alien, deported seven times from the United States, is now facing charges that he committed at least five rapes over the course of nearly two decades.
Carlos Nava, a 46-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, is facing multiple sexual assault charges in Clark County, Nevada. One of the cases dates back to 2003. Prosecutors are accusing Nava of raping prostitutes in Las Vegas and kidnapping one of them. After having been arrested in July, Nava was given a $5,000 bail and released from jail with an ankle-monitoring GPS tracker. . . .
FAIR
November 7, 2022
The U.S. government not only put illegal aliens in hotels at taxpayer expense, but it signed lucrative no-bid contracts to provide migrants with five-star treatment, including laundry service, in-room meal delivery, mattress choices and security attendants.Under the discontinued program run by a private contractor, hotels were taken over in El Paso, Pecos and Cotulla, Texas, and Chandler and Phoenix in Arizona as the Biden administration scrambled to accommodate a record influx of border crossers.Migrants got three meals a day via room service (complete with several meat options), 24-hour...
IRLI
November 3, 2022
WASHINGTON—The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Florida federal district court opposing the Biden administration’s latest attempt to rid itself of the state of Florida’s lawsuit challenging its policy of catching and releasing illegal aliens.
In moving for summary judgment against Florida, the administration claims it has unbounded discretion about whether to detain and deport illegal aliens, and so its policy of simply not enforcing the law cannot be reviewed by a court. In its brief, IRLI shows that, in fact, Congress very clearly...
In Del Rio Sector alone, there have been over 50 large groups of more than 100 migrants since Oct. 1
FOX News
November 3, 2022
On Monday, a large group illegally crossed the southern border into the United States at El Paso, Texas and attacked Border Patrol agents. One individual in the group was carrying a giant Venezuelan flag.
Bill Melugin and Adam Shaw of Fox News reported:
[Border Patrol] said one of the protesters assaulted an agent with a flagpole while another threw a rock at agents, injuring one in the process. That in turn led Border Patrol to initiate crowd-control measures.
"These measures included the use of the authorized less-lethal force pepperball launching system," the...
FAIR
November 2, 2022
Late on Friday October 21, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) finally released the September numbers for illegal aliens encountered at the Southwest Border: 227,547, an all-time high for any September on record. The numbers themselves make it clear why the Biden administration is so keen on keeping them out of the press and away from public view. In a functioning administration, legally mandated reporting of routine data doesn’t require coaxing or righteous vows. Unfortunately for Americans, the Biden administration’s sole function on the border seems to be allowing as many illegal aliens...
