Border security - Page 972

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.

June 20, 2021

Border crisis shows few signs of slowing as migrant encounters, fentanyl seizures stay high

The Biden administration has been facing a continuing crisis at the southern border after taking office in January, and so far there are few signs of it slowing down significantly – with the number of migrants and seizures of the deadly drug fentanyl continuing to rise.

June 19, 2021

Dem Rep. Cuellar says he has not heard from VP Harris on border visit

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar on Saturday said he had not heard from the office of Vice President Kamala Harris after he invited her to visit to the southern border -- while suggesting the administration’s policies were at least partly to blame for the crisis.

June 19, 2021

ICE arrests remain low in May amid controversy over narrowed enforcement rules on illegal immigration

Arrests of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in May remained low for yet another month -- amid an ongoing controversy over narrowed enforcement rules implemented by the Biden administration.

June 19, 2021

Rep. Cawthorn on border crisis: This is a question of national security not xenophobia

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C. and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich joined “Hannity” to discuss the Biden administration's continued avoidance of the southern border.

June 18, 2021

56 House Republicans urge Biden to remove Harris from leading role on migration crisis

More than 50 House Republicans are urging President Biden to remove Vice President Kamala Harris from her role dealing with the migrant crisis that has overwhelmed the southern border in recent months -- accusing her of "inaction" on the crisis due to her failure to visit the border.