KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—A 15-year-old was shot and injured during a traffic stop after he allegedly tried to run over a sheriff’s deputy early morning on May 9, according to Brad Coe, sheriff of Kinney County, a rural border county in south Texas. The teen was smuggling five illegal aliens in his vehicle when he was…
15-Year-Old Smuggler Shot While Trying to Run Down Deputy in Texas
May 12, 2022
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Guilty Verdict in First Illegal Alien Trespass Trial in Texas
May 10, 2022
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BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—The first jury trial under Texas’s Operation Lone Star border program wrapped up in Kinney County, Texas, on May 9. The defendant, Honduran native Lester Hidalgo Aguilar, was found guilty of criminal trespass on a local ranch and sentenced to the maximum jail time of one year. The judge declined to apply an accompanying…
GOP Congress Members Probe ICE Contract; $17 Million Spent on Unused Hotels for Illegal Immigrants
A group of Republican congress members is investigating a recent inspector general report that said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wrongfully gave out an $87 million sole-source contract to a Texas nonprofit, resulting in millions of dollars of wasted taxpayer money. ICE contracted the San Antonio-based nonprofit, Endeavors, to house illegal immigrants in hotels last…
Migrants Planning to Illegally Cross US Border Use Private Chat Groups to Discuss Title 42, Best Strategies
May 4, 2022
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico—As the Biden administration prepares to revoke Title 42, the migrant chat rooms on WhatsApp are full of chatter about how it might affect their illegal entry into the United States. Title 42, the public health order, allows for the quick expulsion of non-essential travelers, including illegal aliens. “I’d like to know if…
Migrants Planning to Cross US Border Illegally Use Private Chat Groups to Discuss Title 42, Best Strategies
May 4, 2022
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico—As the Biden administration prepares to revoke Title 42, the migrant chat rooms on WhatsApp are full of chatter about how it might affect their illegal entry into the United States. Title 42, the public health order, allows for the quick expulsion of non-essential travelers, including illegal aliens. “I’d like to know if…
Border Patrol Arrests for April Hit Record High at Almost 212,000
May 3, 2022
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DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents apprehended 211,972 illegal immigrants along the southern border in April, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) numbers obtained by The Epoch Times. The number of apprehensions are markedly higher than any April on record, including during the past 10 years when apprehensions ranged from a low of 11,000…
Illegal Aliens Sue Texas Officials After Arrests for Trespassing
May 3, 2022
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KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—A group of illegal aliens has filed a lawsuit against Texas officials for alleged constitutional violations within the governor’s Operation Lone Star criminal trespass program. The lawyers for the 15 plaintiffs hope to turn the case into a class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 2,000 illegal immigrants whom they say have…
Texas Approves $495.3 Million for Border Security Operations
April 30, 2022
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Texas has approved the transfer of $495.3 million to fund Operation Lone Star and critical border operations at other state agencies, the governor’s office announced Friday. “This funding will address immediate border security needs while future funding needed to protect Texans continues to be evaluated,” according to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office. The vast majority of the funds—$465.3…
Turkish National With Terror Ties Deported After Crossing US Border Illegally
April 28, 2022
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A Turkish national with ties to terrorism was deported from the United States last week, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The man, Volkan Gogebakan, 31, was turned over to Turkish officials at Istanbul airport on April 22, ICE stated. He had crossed the border illegally near El Paso, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2021,…
States Join Forces to Tackle Border Crisis and Cartel-Related Crime
Ohio has been beleaguered by the opioid crisis for years. It has one of the highest overdose rates in the country, next to West Virginia, Kentucky, and Delaware. As with all states, nearly every grain of fentanyl that Arkansas law enforcement seizes has traveled across the U.S.–Mexico border. In 2021, Arkansas State Police confiscated 10…
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