illegal immigration

Some illegal aliens who made the trek to Chicago from Venezuela and other places are so disillusioned with their experiences that they are headed back to their home country.

Venezuelan Michael Castejon, 39, told the Chicago Tribune that he feels lied to about how he and his wife and daughter would find a better life in the United States.

“The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore,” Castejon lamented. “There’s nothing here for us. We just want to be home.”The Venezuelan couple expected to come to this country and be handed all sorts of wonderful benefits, and they especially wanted their daughter enrolled in a free U.S. school. . . . Read more about Illegal Aliens Disgruntled with Sanctuary City, So They Are Heading Back Home: 'Nothing Here for Us'

They wanted to live in America, but not at an emergency shelter created by New York City at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field.

A tent city was erected at the former airfield where New York plans to house about 2,000 illegal immigrants who have come to the City.

But when a bus arrived Sunday afternoon, several of the illegal immigrants said it was not good enough, according to the New York Post.

“We weren’t told where we were going. I work in the Bronx. My kids go to school in the Bronx. For us to live out here is ridiculous. We’re going back,” one migrant told the Post. . . . Read more about Migrants Refuse to Stay at New NYC Shelter, Demand New Accommodations

Given immigration's recent and projected contributions to U.S. population growth, immigration policy is an important factor that drives up housing prices and rents. According to a study published by the Urban Institute's Housing Matters Initiative, immigration causes a significant increase in home prices and rents in the metropolitan areas where migrants settle, and an even bigger increase in surrounding areas.

A surge in illegal immigration is worsening America's existing housing crisis, and is costing state and local governments (i.e., taxpayers) millions. Communities simply do not have enough affordable homes, enough shelter, or enough tax money to help everyone who needs it. Out of desperation, towns and cities have tried everything from paying for hotel rooms to converting school gymnasiums and giant tents into temporary shelters, along with support services. For example, tax-funded hotel stays can include three meals a day, weekly . . . Read more about Border Policy, Housing, Water, and Farms

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

A suspected migrant smuggler and seven others died after the driver’s vehicle collided with an innocent motorist near Batesville, Texas. According to a law enforcement source, the smuggler who was transporting five suspected migrants and was fleeing from Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers when the accident occurred just before 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday.

The accident occurred on U.S. Highway 57 in Zavala County near the small farming community of Batesville — more than 50 miles from the border. According to the source, a DPS Highway Patrol trooper noted suspicious behavior by the occupants and attempted to stop the vehicle. A pursuit ensued that ended when the suspected migrant smuggler crashed into an oncoming vehicle, killing himself and . . . Read more about Exclusive: Eight Dead in Texas after Human Smuggling Pursuit Ends in Crash

EAGLE PASS, Texas — An estimated 1,500 mostly Venezuelan migrants entered the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas,  during the late evening hours on Tuesday. The latest group of migrants to surrender to authorities brings the eight-day total of migrant crossings to more than 16,000. It took ten full days in September 2021 for 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants to ford the river during the infamous immigration surge in Del Rio.

In just over a week, Breitbart Texas observed more than 16,000 migrants stream across the Rio Grande from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, to Eagle Pass. Despite the heavy presence of local, state, and federal law enforcement, Texas military soldiers, and layers of razor wire, the migrants crossed the border into Texas unscathed. . . . Read more about Migrant Surge in Texas Border Town Outpacing Haitian Crisis of 2021

The aftermath of seven farmworkers killed May 18 in one of the deadliest highway crashes in recent Oregon history has highlighted a network willing and able to rally support for its more vulnerable members.

But the unique challenges the farmworker community faces when tragedy strikes also have been accentuated.

A van carrying 11 passengers, all contract farmworkers, was struck by a semitruck traveling north on Interstate 5 near Albany. Six people were killed on-site; a seventh died on the way to a regional hospital. The other four passengers were injured, some severely. . . . Read more about Support surges for farmworkers killed in Oregon highway crash, but hurdles remain

President Joe Biden’s deputies have targeted six poor communities in New York and New Jersey as locations to resettle the foreign migrants now overflowing government-funded shelters in New York City.

The list of sites was sent to state officials, and promptly leaked to Bloomberg, which reported:

Most of the sites are outside of the city, including Stewart International Airport, a small Hudson Valley facility frequently used by private jet owners. The Atlantic City location is even in another state, New Jersey. . . . Read more about Biden Targets Six Communities to Dump New York City’s Migrants

    An analysis by FAIR of the most recent Census Bureau data reveals that at least 16.8 million illegal aliens now reside in the United States. This figure represents an increase of 1.3 million just since the beginning of 2022, and 2.3 million since President Biden took office in January 2021. At the current pace of illegal immigration, more illegal aliens will have entered the United States in the first three years of the Biden administration than in the entire decade of the 2010’s. . . . Read more about The Biden Bump: FAIR Estimates Illegal Alien Population Has Grown 2.3 Million in Two Years

EXCLUSIVE: Fox News has obtained images that show suspected cartel gunmen coming across the U.S. southern border in Texas toting body armor and rifles – the latest instance of armed men believed to be cartel members at the border.

Law enforcement sources tell Fox that the three men were spotted on Saturday evening by cameras in the Fronton area and were seen carrying rifles and wearing body armor as they move through the brush. 

Border Patrol agents, including the agency’s BORTAC tactical unit, were deployed to the area but found nothing. It is the same area where law enforcement arrested five suspected members of the Northeast Cartel in June. . . .

  Read more about Images show men armed with rifles, body armor coming across southern border