As many as 1.2 million illegal immigrants may have evaded detection and sneaked into the country over the last year and more will come if they hear about plans to pay $450,000 to some migrants, a top Border Patrol union official said in a new podcast r…
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s a death trap’: ICE officers file OSHA complaint over illegal immigrant COVID risks
The labor union for ICE officers has filed two workplace safety complaints over the Biden administration’s handling of illegal immigrants and COVID at the border, saying federal employees forced to process and release the migrants face conditions…
Thousands of Border Patrol agents at risk of being fired over vaccine mandate, Arizona AG warns
Thousands of Border Patrol agents could be fired over failing to meet President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, Arizona’s attorney general warned in a new letter calling on the administration to relax its unprecedent…
Democrats draw immigrants’ ire after watering down amnesty provisions in budget bill
House Democrats dropped plans for an expansive amnesty for illegal immigrants in their new budget proposal Wednesday, and instead called for a more tentative legal status for illegal immigrants that would block them from deportation but not offer a cle…
Citizenship path for illegal immigrants to cost taxpayers more than $500 billion
Offering a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants and opening the doors to more legal immigrants will cost the federal government more than $500 billion over the next few decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The costs would come …
Immigration activists blast Democrats over shrinking immigration plans
Immigration and Hispanic-rights activists lashed out at Democratic leaders Tuesday for lacking “courage” as chances dimmed for including a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants in President Biden’s massive social spending budget bill. Democrats…
10,000 Afghans resettled two months after evacuation as questions mount over vetting
Nearly 10,000 Afghans brought out of their country during the U.S. airlift have been processed, released and resettled into the U.S. over the last two months, with some 53,000 still at military bases getting ready to be discharged. As the Afghans begin…
DHS issues memo to cancel ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a new memo Friday seeking to cancel the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” border policy that helped solve the previous migrant surge. The move comes even as Mr. Mayorkas is trying to restart the program …
Coffin caper: Illegal immigrants smuggled in a flag-draped casket
A smuggler tried to sneak two illegal immigrants past a Border Patrol checkpoint earlier this week by stuffing them into a flag-draped casket and telling agents he was carrying the body of a Navy sailor. Two agents at the checkpoint, both military vete…
GOP vows to fight Biden plan to pay $450,000 to separated illegal immigrant families
Republicans moved Thursday to block a reported plan by the Biden administration to make $450,000 payments to illegal immigrants who were part of family separations during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy. Sen. Steve Daines said h…