Homeland Security

Texas plans to build a military base near Eagle Pass in response to ‘Biden’s border crisis’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced plans Friday to build a Texas National Guard base near the southern border.

It’ll be a Forward Operating Base explicitly designed for Texas National Guard troops to quickly respond “to President Joe Biden’s border crisis,” according to a press release from Abbott’s office.

“Texas is expanding our border security capabilities by building a new Texas Military Department base camp to increase and improve border security operations in this area,” the governor said in a statement. “This will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas Military Department soldiers in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and efficiently.”

“Before now, the Texas National Guard had been scattered . . . Read more about Texas plans to build a military base near Eagle Pass in response to ‘Biden’s border crisis’

BORDER SHOWDOWN: Texas to Defy Biden Admin’s Order to Give Feds Access to Park Along Rio Grande

EAGLE PASS, Texas — As of Wednesday afternoon, Army National Guard soldiers remain posted at temporary gates erected at the entrance to a city-owned park along the Rio Grande. The park was seized by order of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and closed off to Border Patrol agents unless their entrance into the area is first coordinated with state law enforcement and the Texas Military Department.

The state appears to be standing firm as a Biden administration deadline of “the end of the day” for the state to remove the gates and allow unimpeded access to the Border Patrol approaches. General Counsel Jonathan Meyer, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, communicated it to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a letter on January 10. . . . Read more about BORDER SHOWDOWN: Texas to Defy Biden Admin’s Order to Give Feds Access to Park Along Rio Grande

Senate Negotiators Fail to Reach Deal on Border Security over the Weekend; Battle Resumes in 2024

On Sunday, both Democrat and Republican negotiators in the Senate acknowledged they had failed to reach a deal on the immigration policy changes needed to advance President Biden’s foreign aid package.  The negotiators met through the weekend after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday he would keep the Senate in session, instead of recessing for the holidays, to pressure the negotiators to make a deal. 

Negotiations were active over the weekend.  According to various news sources, Senator Lankford (R-Okla.), along with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I., Ariz.) and Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), White House aides, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and aides to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) huddled in Senator Schumer’s office on Saturday and Sunday.  Senator Lankford, the chief Republican negotiator, told reporters that Senators would need to have an agreement on a framework by Sunday evening.  Otherwise there would be insufficient time to put the agreement down on paper and start voting. 

By Sunday morning, the likelihood of an agreement was already in doubt. . . . Read more about Senate Negotiators Fail to Reach Deal on Border Security over the Weekend; Battle Resumes in 2024

Report: Biden’s DHS Admits Barriers are Most Effective Measure at Border

WASHINGTON – The Immigration Reform Law Institute has obtained an internal audit report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG), admitting what most Americans already understand: border barriers are the most effective measures for curbing illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The OIG document was the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from IRLI as part of an investigative report on the value of physical barriers at the border. The audit report directly contradicts the position of the Biden Administration, which has long claimed that a border wall is “not a serious policy solution” and . . . Read more about Report: Biden’s DHS Admits Barriers are Most Effective Measure at Border

Report: Biden’s DHS Admits Barriers are Most Effective Measure at Border

WASHINGTON – The Immigration Reform Law Institute has obtained an internal audit report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG), admitting what most Americans already understand: border barriers are the most effective measures for curbing illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The OIG document was the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from IRLI as part of an investigative report on the value of physical barriers at the border. The audit report directly contradicts the position of the Biden Administration, which has long claimed that a border wall is “not a serious policy solution” and . . . Read more about Report: Biden’s DHS Admits Barriers are Most Effective Measure at Border

‘We’re Just Uber Drivers’: Border Patrol Agent Says America Is Being Destroyed

JACUMBA, Calif.—Two older SUVs appear to come out of nowhere, slowly at first, then kicking up clouds of dust as they pick up speed along the southern side of the U.S.–Mexico border. Two white vans tail them to a gap in the border wall.

With covered faces, smugglers suspected of working for drug cartels exit the vehicles, which bear a mix of Californian and Mexican license plates. The coyotes, as they are known, glare through the slats in the 30-foot-tall border wall, while keeping an eye on . . . Read more about ‘We’re Just Uber Drivers’: Border Patrol Agent Says America Is Being Destroyed

IRLI Attacks Biden’s Asylum Express

WASHINGTON—The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a brief in a Texas federal district court urging the court not to dismiss a case against a new Biden Administration rule making asylum easier and faster than before. The rule seeks to achieve greater ease and speed in the asylum process by transferring the authority to make final grants of asylum from immigration judges, where it now resides, to the federal employees known as asylum officers.

n its brief, IRLI shows that this transfer is blatantly unconstitutional. Under the Appointments Clause, government actions bearing the authority of the United States must be performed by properly-appointed officers of the United States. Undoubtedly, final grants . . .

Mayorkas Won't Say How Many Illegal Immigrants Admitted Into US, During Tense Exchange With Sen. Johnson

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's steadfast refusal to say how many illegal immigrants have been allowed by federal immigration officials to enter the United States in recent years, or their current whereabouts, shows he knows that it's a national security threat but won't acknowledge it, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

“The security threat is that we don't know who these people are—1.7 million known gotaways," Mr. Johnson told The Epoch Times. "We're just detecting them coming in. Plus, we have no idea where these people are. We just let 6 million people in this country, and we don't know a thing about them, [or] what they may be up to.

"In a dangerous world, that's a real threat to . . . Read more about Mayorkas Won't Say How Many Illegal Immigrants Admitted Into US, During Tense Exchange With Sen. Johnson

Abbott’s Migrant Busing Program Sends 63K Migrants to Sanctuary Cities

The number of migrants bused from Texas to multiple sanctuary cities topped 63,000 this week, according to a post on X by Governor Greg Abbott. The migrants are bused from Texas to Washington D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles.

Governor Abbott posted a report on X showing that the number of migrants bused from Texas to six sanctuary cities topped 63,000.

New York City topped the governor’s destination list, receiving more than 22,600 migrants. This was followed closely by Chicago (more than 18,000) and Washington, D.C. (More than 12,500). . . . Read more about Abbott’s Migrant Busing Program Sends 63K Migrants to Sanctuary Cities

Nearly 150 Illegal Aliens on ‘Terrorist Watch List’ Encountered at U.S. Border in Past Year

As Americans mark the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, President Joe Biden’s administration is overseeing a surge in illegal aliens crossing the United States-Mexico border who are on the government’s “Terrorist Watch List.”

Since October 2022, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has encountered149 illegal aliens at the nation’s northern and southern borders who were revealed to be listed on the federal government’s Terrorist Watch List.

The overwhelming majority, 146, were encountered at the southern border, while three have been encountered at the northern border. . . . Read more about Nearly 150 Illegal Aliens on ‘Terrorist Watch List’ Encountered at U.S. Border in Past Year

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