Category: border security

Human Smuggling Leading to Pursuits, Bailouts, Crashes, School Lockdowns

UVALDE, Texas—A smuggler traveling at 140 miles per hour races through town and crashes through a building in Uvalde, Texas. Another one drives onto a softball field in Crystal City, with children playing nearby. In Del Rio, eight illegal aliens die after crashing head-on into another vehicle during a pursuit. Further east, in Lavaca County,…


Texas Counties Start Charging Illegal Aliens With Child Endangerment, Trespass

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—The tens of thousands of illegal aliens that evade Border Patrol every month—hoping to slip undetected to large cities up north—are now being confronted by sheriffs who are starting to charge them for trespassing, evading arrest on foot, and endangering the life or health of a child. Seeing no solutions to the border crisis…


Texas Ranchers Live in Fear as Encounters With Illegal Aliens Increase

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere is the epitome of the American dream for many Texans. They keep to themselves, help their neighbors, and work hard. But in the past few months, ranchers have been getting unwelcome visitors who destroy their property, steal their vehicles, and scare their families. They’re…


ICE Unable to Track Most Illegal Immigrants Released Into Country

As thousands of illegal immigrants are released into the United States every week, the agency responsible for enforcement is unable to keep tabs on most of them. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae Johnson admitted to Congress that “there’s certainly some gaps in our ability to track” illegal immigrants being released. After being…


Illegal Immigrants Walk a Deadly Path Around a Border Checkpoint

BROOKS COUNTY, Texas—Every week, deputy sheriff Don White heads out on remote ranchlands to search for the bodies of illegal immigrants. Brooks County is about 70 miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border, but it’s also where most of the bodies turn up. The only way to skirt the Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Route 281…


Border Patrol Union: Impossible to Protect American Public With Open Border

McALLEN, Texas—The most concerning aspect of the border crisis is the increasing number of illegal aliens who are getting away, says National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd. “We don’t know who they are, where they’re from, or what their intentions are,” Judd told The Epoch Times. “When you look at border security, when you…


Increasing Number of Illegal Aliens Evading Border Patrol; 42,000 in April

McALLEN, Texas—With Border Patrol agents overwhelmed by family groups and unaccompanied minors, more illegal aliens are escaping into the interior of the United States and fewer drugs are being seized. During April, more than 177,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by Border Patrol, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) numbers, as provided to Jaeson…


Texas AG: More Lawsuits Coming to Biden Administration Over Border Crisis

MISSION, Texas—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he is teeing up more lawsuits against the Biden administration for not enforcing immigration law. With five lawsuits already filed, Paxton said he hopes to force the administration to follow the laws Congress has in place. “There’s a reason that we’ve sued the Biden administration five times over…


Texas Counties Declare Disaster Over Border Crisis

A Honduran woman’s body was found dumped in the brush on private property in Goliad County, Texas, after she had been smuggled hundreds of miles north from the border in March, according to county Sheriff Roy Boyd. In another case, an old shed on a ranch was being used to strip stolen vehicles in preparation…


GOP Senators Urge Biden to Take Swift Action to Address ‘Tragedy’ at Southern Border

A coalition of Republican senators who recently visited the southern border is urging President Joe Biden to take swift action and reverse his policy decisions that they say has caused the significant surge in illegal immigration in recent months. The ten senators penned a letter to the White House detailing a harrowing account of their…