Tag: border security

Biden Admin Unveils Most Restrictive Border Control Measure to Date

The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a new rule that constitutes its most extensive attempt to date at restricting illegal immigrants who cross the border to seek asylum in the United States. Migrants who enter the United States illegally, or who fail to seek protection in countries they pass through en route to the United States,…


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Cuellar to Tour Southern Border After GOP Visit

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) are set to visit Cuellar’s home district in Loredo, Texas today, to tour the border a day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led a Republican delegation to the border in Arizona. According to a press release shared with Fox News, Jeffries and Cuellar will…


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Cuellar Visit Southern Border After GOP Visit

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) visited Cuellar’s home district in Loredo, Texas today, to tour the border a day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led a Republican delegation to the border in Arizona. The pair of Democratic lawmakers held a press conference on Friday afternoon, following an initial meeting…


Border Patrol Chiefs Say Walls Would Improve Border Security

A pair of Border Patrol sector chiefs called for more border wall construction during a hearing in the House Oversight and Government Accountability Committee on Tuesday. Gloria Chavez, the chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, and John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Tucson sector in Arizona, both called…


Texas Sheriffs Join Forces to Tackle Cartel, Border Crime

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Cowboy hats filled a local BBQ restaurant in Brackettville last week as Texas sheriffs convened in a border county that’s being clobbered by human smuggling. The sheriffs, all from non-border counties, were responding to a call for help from Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe. “I am requesting any aide that your county may…


Texas Border Sheriff Wants Smugglers to Get 5 Years Per Illegal Immigrant

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—The number of human smugglers arrested by deputies in Kinney County, Texas, has more than quadrupled in the past two years and the sheriff wants the penalties to increase. Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe said his deputies arrested 741 smugglers transporting illegal immigrants from the border in 2022, up from 169 in 2020….


Capitol Report: House GOP Holds First Hearing on Southern Border in New Congress; Biden Documents Probe Expands

Another search for classified documents was conducted at President Joe Biden’s beach home in Delaware. What was retrieved from his Rehoboth Beach House, and what was the White House’s reaction? Congress’s first hearing on border security was held Wednesday in the House’s judiciary committee. Is the GOP laying the groundwork to impeach the secretary of…


Democrats and Republicans Battle in ‘Biden’s Border Crisis’ Hearing

Democratic and Republican congressmen at the five-hour Congressional hearing on the border could agree America’s southern border had problems but disagreed about nearly everything else. The hearing opened with an hour-and-a-half-long argument about whether to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) rattled off a staggering list of statistics on…


Rep. Chip Roy Defends Border Bill: ‘Absolutely Doesn’t Ban Asylum’

DEL RIO, Texas—The first in a slate of border security-related bills that Republicans hope to bring to the floor this year is largely a Title 42-esque action. It’s also part of the assurance House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave to several GOP holdouts when vying for the Speaker position several weeks ago. He won the…


LIVE NOW: House Republicans Hold Press Conference on Biden’s Border Policies

Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are joined by their colleagues to host a press conference at 5:10 p.m. ET on Jan. 24. They will criticize President Joe Biden for prioritizing initiatives such as integrating gender perspectives into natural disaster response over border security in his recent meetings with Mexican President Andrés Manuel…