Category: immigration

Biden, Not Trump, Driving Border Crisis

Commentary Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas summed up our border crisis in a statement he released March 16: “We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.” According to The Wall Street Journal, Border Patrol agents made about 75,000 arrests of migrants crossing…


Texas Governor Says Biden’s Border Policies ‘Emboldening’ Human Traffickers

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asserted that recent decisions made by the Biden administration on the U.S-Mexico border are emboldening human traffickers to “ramp up their criminal operations.” In a letter (pdf) to the White House on Tuesday, the governor called on President Joe Biden’s administration to investigate every unaccompanied minor crossing the U.S.-Mexico…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (March 22)

An activist explains what the southern border migration surge may mean for victims of sex trafficking, the U.S. and its allies sanction the Chinese regime over its human rights abuses, and South Dakota’s governor forms a new coalition to limit girls’ sports to biological girls only.


Former Trump Immigration Adviser: Biden’s Policies Incentivizing Parents to Send Children

President Joe Biden’s immigration policies are motivating parents in other countries to send their children alone to the United States’ southern border, a former top immigration adviser during the previous administration said on Sunday. “The administration’s policy of resettling any 17-year-old or younger who was trafficked to our borders, is a global policy of family…


Biden Says He Will Visit Southern Border ‘At Some Point’

President Joe Biden said on Sunday that he will visit the U.S. southern border “at some point” as his administration continues to struggle with addressing the influx of illegal immigration. Biden made the comments to reporters after stepping off the Marine One at the White House. The United States is currently facing a significant surge…


US Opening New Facility to Hold Up to 2,000 Child Migrants

The United States is set to open another facility to deal with the surge in illegal immigrants, President Joe Biden’s administration announced Saturday. The new facility is in Pecos, Texas. It can initially hold about 500 children, with the potential to expand to 2,000, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee…


Texas Governor Announces State Actions Over Federal Facilities Holding Unaccompanied Minors

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday criticized the Biden administration over the “unacceptable and inhumane” conditions of two federal facilities holding unaccompanied minors and ordered investigations into the issues, amid a recent surge of illegal aliens across the U.S.–Mexico border. In a statement, the Republican governor said that water at a federally-run facility in Midland was not…


Texas Governor Announces COVID-19 Outbreak, Unsafe Water at Facilities Holding Illegal Aliens

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday criticized the Biden administration over the “unacceptable and inhumane” conditions of two federal facilities holding illegal aliens, including unaccompanied minors, amid a recent surge of illegal aliens across the U.S.–Mexico border. In a statement, the Republican governor said that water at a federally-run facility in Midland was not proven safe before…


Texas Officials: COVID-19 Outbreak, Potentially Unsafe Water at Facilities Holding Illegal Aliens

Texas officials said potentially unsafe water has been found at a border facility holding illegal immigrant children, while a COVID-19 outbreak was seen at two facilities holding the youth. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found that well water being used at a federally-run facility in Midland hasn’t been proven to be safe and could…


Open Borders: An Assault on Common Sense

Commentary “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” So begins one of the most pivotal pronouncements in the advancement of human liberty. With those words, Thomas Jefferson threw down a gauntlet at the feet of not just the king of England, but also at Parliament and the entire entrenched elite who, up until then, had…