Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan on Thursday reported a significant drop in the number of migrants crossing the southern border compared to last year - a fact he attributed...
Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement for Customs and Border Protection, told a House Homeland Security subcommittee on Tuesday that if migrants seeking asylum cross the border illegally, it’s a crime.
"Texas has more than its share in assisting the refugee resettlement process and appreciates that other states are available to help with these efforts," Abbott wrote in a Friday letter to Sec. Mike Pompeo.
Arrivals of migrant families on the border in 2019 more than tripled compared to any previous fiscal year on record, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan announced Tuesday.
Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli defended the Trump administration’s new asylum rules in an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, saying that the asylum arrangement that the U.S....
Congress’s unwillingness to provide enough funding for beds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants has contributed to the overcrowded conditions at Customs and Border...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) asked lawmakers Friday not to refer to illegal immigrants as “illegal,” because the term is “derogatory” and “it dehumanizes people.”
During Wednesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the border crisis, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), ranking member of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, took issue with...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a podcast interview with The New Yorker Radio Hour last week that she’s open to getting rid of the Department of Homeland Security.
CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that all Border Patrol facilities have access to fresh water, countering claims made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.)...
Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 664,000 illegal aliens on the border so far this year, which represents “a nearly 140 percent increase compared to the same time frame last year,” Brian...
Former Obama official Patrick Gaspard in a panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous” blamed Central American migration on the “climate crisis.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), now running for the Democrat presidential nomination, says the growing wave of asylum-seekers and illegal aliens flooding into the United States "don't need to be...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced a plan on Wednesday to deal with the immigration crisis on the border with his bill – the Secure and Protect Act of 2019.
Customs and Border Patrol apprehended over 103,000 illegal immigrants crossing the border in March – the highest number of apprehensions in a month in over a decade, acting Homeland Security Secretary...
National security reporter for the Washington Post Nick Miroff reported on Monday that “the claim that border crossings are near historic lows is simply no longer true.”