Tag: border security

As Cartels Drive Drugs Across Border, CBP Only Searching 18 Percent of Vehicles

As drugs pour across the southern border, only about 18 percent of vehicles entering from Mexico are searched by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, their K-9s, and x-ray equipment, according to Guadalupe Ramirez, CBP director of field operations for Arizona. The vast majority of the drugs that are seized at the southern border are…


Female Smugglers Set Free as Border Town Lacks Jail Space for Women

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Women who are caught smuggling illegal aliens through Texas’ Kinney County are essentially being given a long-term get-out-of jail-free card since the county jail can’t house women. And many of those caught smuggling know that. The sheriff’s deputies say female drivers they catch will tell them: “You can’t arrest me, you don’t have…


Fentanyl-Laced Pills Killing Teens as Pill-Popping Culture Fuels Crisis

It only takes a quick scroll of the Facebook page “Lost Voices of Fentanyl” to see the wake of devastation illicit fentanyl is leaving behind. The page, which has 19,000 members and grows daily, is full of the faces of loved ones lost and grieving family members trying to contend with the pain. If that’s…


Life for Border Ranchers: Assaulted, Dogs Beaten, Fences Destroyed, Dead Bodies

EAGLE PASS, Texas—Ranchers along the south Texas border are having their livelihoods crushed by the volume of illegal aliens trampling through their properties, assaulting and threatening them, beating their dogs, cutting fences, destroying water lines, and breaking into their homes. Some have moved their families off the property for safety and ranch managers are quitting…


Border Patrol Chief Says ‘No Consequences’ Is Driving Border Crisis

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said the U.S. border is in crisis, largely due to no consequences being applied to most illegal aliens. “In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences,” Ortiz said on July 28 during a deposition for a lawsuit against the federal government by Florida Attorney General Ashley…


Border Patrol Chief Says ‘No Consequences’ Are Driving Border Crisis

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said the U.S. border is in crisis, largely because of a lack of consequences being applied to most illegal aliens. “In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences,” Ortiz said on July 28 during a deposition for a lawsuit against the federal government by Florida Attorney…


Illegal Immigrant Children Being Placed With Strangers, Says Whistleblower

Unaccompanied children who cross the U.S. border alone are potentially being placed in dangerous situations due to the lax vetting of the adults they’re being handed off to, says a whistleblower who works with a company that transports the minors around the United States. An unaccompanied child who crossed the U.S. border illegally without a…


72 Percent of Illegal Border Crossers Hail From Countries Other Than Mexico

Gone are the days when most illegal border crossers are easy-to-return single, male Mexicans looking for work. Almost three-quarters of the nearly 200,000 people apprehended along the southern border in July were foreign nationals from countries other than Mexico, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Of the 200,000 illegal aliens encountered, 99,000 were…


Illegal Immigrants Become New Slave Class in US: Texas Sheriff

GOLIAD, Texas—Federal immigration officials have long said that every illegal immigrant who crosses the U.S. southern border has to pay the Mexican cartel in control of that area of the border, known as a “plaza.” Fees vary depending on the nationality of the border crosser and what type of “service” they’re paying for. It’s cheaper…


Arizona ‘Has Had Enough,’ Starts Stacking Shipping Containers in Border Wall Gaps

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has ordered 60 double-stacked shipping containers to be placed in border fence gaps near Yuma, the state’s busiest illegal border crossing area. The containers will be reinforced with concertina wire at the top, according to the governor, who issued an executive order for the work to begin on Aug. 12. “Arizona…