The big business lobby is cheerleading President-elect Joe Biden’s massive amnesty plan for the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the US
Category: Illegal Immigration
Trump weighs more crackdowns on welfare-dependent immigration
President Trump’s administration is weighing more crackdowns to ensure American taxpayers are not footing the bill for the cost of legal immigrant welfare dependents to the United States.
Supreme Court backs Trump administration’s ‘stay in Mexico’ policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a Trump administration policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for the outcome of their case to remain in effect while a lower court challenge plays out.
Fake immigration attorney arrested after allegedly filing 100’s of bogus asylum claims
Elvis Harold Reyes is being charged with mail fraud, making false statements in immigration documents, and aggravated identity theft. The charges were announced Wednesday in a press release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
DEA arrests 700 US-based Mexican drug cartel members
In a synchronized nationwide raid on the early morning of March 11, more than 250 members of Mexico’s Cartel de Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG) were swept up by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
A further 450 had already been arrested over the past six months, in what the DEA has dubbed “Project Python.” Most are charged with federal drug trafficking crimes.
SCOTUS rules 5-4 allowing states to prosecute illegal aliens who steal American ID’s
Appeals court temporarily blocks Trump’s “remain in Mexico” asylum policy
The U.S. Courts of Appeals of the 9th Circuit ruled on Friday to uphold a preliminary injunction issued by a lower court that puts a hold on one of the administration’s key immigration policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), that aimed at ending loopholes in the current “catch and release” policy, under which asylum seekers are released into the interior of the country as they await a court hearing, often never to be seen again. The injunction would remain in place while the case plays out in the courts.
Border agents issued respirators to deal with Chinese illegal migrants crossing from Mexico
US Customs and Border Protection agents in South Texas are reportedly being given respirator face masks to deal with Chinese immigrants crossing illegally into the US through Mexico.
Gov. Ron DeSantis puts anti-E-Verify Republicans on notice
As a battle over a strong statewide E-Verify law heats up in Tallahassee, Florida Governor Rick DeSantis is cautioning Republicans who seek to neuter the law over the ire they’ll face from conservative voters.
Trump to send border patrol tactical teams to sanctuary cities
The Trump administration is sending officers from a special operations unit of the Border Patrol to assist in raids by Immigration Customs and Enforcement in so-called sanctuary cities.
The officers from BORTAC, the Border Patrol’s version of a SWAT unit, will deploy to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and various other cities whose local governments forbid law enforcement from working with federal immigration officials, the New York Times reported on Friday. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lawrence Payne confirmed the initiative.
