June 23, 2021 Kamala Harris to make first trip to border more than 90 days since being tapped for crisis role Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, the White House confirmed, amid mounting criticism from Republicans for not yet doing so, following her appointment by President Biden to handle the "root causes" of migration.
June 23, 2021 DHS allowing some migrants rejected under Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy into US The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Wednesday it will allow some migrants, who were rejected under the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy, into the United States as their asylum cases are heard.
June 22, 2021 Gov. Abbott says Texas border wall project raises $397,000 in first week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to build a wall at Texas’ southern border has raised almost $400,000 in public donations since the project was announced last week, the governor’s office confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday.
June 22, 2021 Nebraska Gov. Ricketts sending police to Texas because Biden is 'failing so miserably' at southern border Nebraska Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts told "Your World" on Tuesday that he has dispatched state troopers to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety because President Joe Biden “failing so miserably” at the southern border.
June 22, 2021 Texas congressmen from both parties urge Biden, Harris visit southern border Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, alongside Reps. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, penned an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, noting the over doubled numbers of border apprehensions between 2019 and 2014, when Biden was vice president.
June 22, 2021 Rio Grande Valley Border chief says apprehensions of large migrant groups dwarfing prior years Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector are seeing a significant increase in large groups of migrants hitting the border, with more groups in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 already matching the number encountered in the past two years combined.
June 22, 2021 Fear shakes Mexico border city after violence leaves 18 dead Fear has invaded the Mexican border city of Reynosa after gunmen in vehicles killed 14 people, including taxis drivers, workers and a nursing student, and security forces responded with operations that left four suspects dead.
June 21, 2021 Georgia lieutenant governor says Biden’s border crisis is ‘very scary’ as an American The current and worsening immigration crisis at the southern border and the Biden administration’s hand in all of it is frightening for Americans, Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, R, stated on Monday's "Your World."
June 21, 2021 Nebraska to send state troopers to Texas to aid border security, Gov. Ricketts says Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said he will send a group of state troopers to Texas later this month to assist local authorities with border security amid an ongoing immigration crisis.
June 20, 2021 Secure border an 'indispensable prerequisite' to immigration reform: Gowdy Congress cannot reform immigration policy in the United States until the crisis at the border is broadly addressed and contained, “Sunday Night in America” host Trey Gowdy said over the weekend.