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EAGLE PASS, Texas — Trucks arrived in the early morning hours Tuesday hauling dozens of shipping containers to the banks of the Rio Grande. Governor Greg Abbott is using the re-purposed containers to serve as a makeshift border barrier in preparation for the latest migrant caravan. As locals looked on from both sides of the border, Texas authorities worked with contract crews to install the containers. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Texas Installs Border Barrier Made of Shipping Containers

Border Patrol agents in Detroit, Michigan, arrested a Honduran man after learning he re-entered the United States less than six months after being deported. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers removed the man in June. . . . Read more about Honduran Child Sex Offender Arrested in Michigan 6 Months After Deportation

Border Patrol documents show that agents apprehended nearly 160,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border during the first month of the new fiscal year. The information shows an increase of nearly 129 percent over October 2020. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: Migrant Apprehensions in October Jump 129 Percent over Prior Year

A source within Customs and Border Protection says more than 60,000 migrants who crossed the southwest border in October 2021 were released into the United States. The source, not authorized to speak to the media, says 40 percent were ineligible to be swiftly expelled under the Trump era Title 42 CDC COVID-19 emergency order. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: 60K Migrants Released into U.S. in October

As attention is focused on a single caravan in Mexico consisting of an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 migrants headed to the U.S. southern border, cartels separately move the equivalent into the states each day. . . . Read more about Clark: Don’t Get Distracted — Cartels Move More Than a Migrant Caravan Daily into U.S.

The number of migrants apprehended in the five Texas-based Border Patrol Sectors nearly matched the population of the state’s third-largest city, Dallas. Agents apprehended nearly 1.2 million migrants during the recently ended fiscal year. . . . Read more about Migrant Apprehensions at Texas-Based Border Sectors in 2021 Nearly Matches Dallas Population

Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 1,666,167 illegal immigrants along the southwest border in fiscal 2021—breaking all records since 1925 after the agency was formed (when 22,199 illegal aliens were arrested). . . . Read more about Border Patrol Arrests Shatter All Records at Southern Border

The federal vaccine mandate will soon apply to Justice Department employees, contractors and visitors to its buildings, but one group it won’t apply to is illegal immigrants showing up for their deportation case hearings. . . . Read more about Illegal immigrants exempt from DOJ’s vaccine mandate at deportation hearings

The man police say brutally raped a woman on Philadelphia-area public transit — as commuters watched without intervening — is living in the United States illegally and should have been deported.

Upper Darby Township police arrested 35-year-old Fiston Ngoy, a homeless man, on charges of aggravated indecent assault without consent and rape and sexual assault. Police say Ngoy attacked and raped a woman while aboard a Philadelphia-area train last Wednesday. . . . Read more about Man accused of raping woman on train is illegal immigrant, was not deported despite history of sexual crime

President Joe Biden’s pick to lead Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Chris Magnus, faced a confirmation hearing Tuesday, in which he refused to call the record high surge of illegal migrants entering the United States at the southern border a crisis but did acknowledge it was an urgent matter. . . . Read more about Biden’s Nominee for CBP Commissioner Refuses to Say There’s a Crisis at the US–Mexico Border