Immigration

SCOTUS Blocks Texas Law Letting Cops Arrest Migrants

CNN reports: The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely blocked Texas from enforcing an immigration law that would allow state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The so-called administrative stay will remain in place while the court considers emergency appeals from the Biden administration and others, who want the justices to block enforcement of …

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Employers Beg For Help: We Need 9 Million Workers

Bloomberg News reports: “I can’t have a conversation with any business owner that doesn’t revolve around the fact that they simply cannot find the skilled workforce they need,” says Jay Timmons, chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers. Some 9 million positions are open across the economy, equal to 1.4 vacancies for every unemployed worker. The worst-affected industries …

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Georgia GOP Bill Allows Arrests Of “Suspected Illegals”

ABC News reports: Georgia House Republicans are backing a bill that would require every eligible police and sheriff’s department to help identify undocumented immigrants, arrest them and detain them for deportation. The House voted 97-74 on Thursday for House Bill 1105 after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus. …

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Judge Blocks TX Law Allowing Police To Arrest Migrants

The Texas Tribune reports: A federal judge in Austin on Thursday halted a new state law that would allow Texas police to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The law, Senate Bill 4, was scheduled to take effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra issued a preliminary injunction that will keep it from being enforced while a …

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Texas AG Threatens To Shut Down Migrant Shelters

The Texas Tribune reports: El Paso leaders on Friday denounced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s threat to shut down Annunciation House, a network of migrant shelters that has been in operation for almost 50 years. “An attack on one is an attack on all,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said during a news conference. Annunciation House operates several shelters …

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Pro-Trump Border Patrol Union Endorses Border Bill

“The Border Act of 2024 will codify into law authorities that U.S. Border Patrol agents never had in the past. This will allow us to remove single adults expeditiously and without a lengthy judicial review, which historically has required the release of these individuals into the interior of the U.S. “This alone will drop illegal border crossings nationwide and will …

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Lankford Falsely Claims 9/11 Hijackers Were “Illegals”

Breitbart pounces: The Republican who helped draft the Senate’s pending pro-migration border bill, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), is getting roasted online for a tweet that blamed the 9/11 atrocity on illegal immigrants. “All of the 9/11 attackers were present in the US illegally,” said the February 2 tweet from his office. “We shouldn’t wait until the next horrific terror attack …

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Texas Gov Has Spent $124 Million To Ship Migrants

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: Texas has spent more than $124 million sending buses of migrants to sanctuary cities, according to records obtained by Nexstar. According to documents Nexstar obtained, Texas has paid $124,603,616.19 to bus more than 100,000 migrants from the state’s border communities to Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles as of Jan. 10. …

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Oklahoma Gov: Red States Would Send Troops To Texas

“We certainly stand with Texas on the right to defend themselves, but Biden’s gonna be in a tough situation, so in other words, he’s going to try to federalize these troops. “In other words, put them on federal orders, and so now their allegiance technically goes to the president of the United States instead of the governor. “And of course …

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Dem Rep: Biden Should Nationalize TX National Guard

The San Antonio Current reports: U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, called on the Biden administration to nationalize the Texas National Guard if Gov. Greg Abbott won’t follow a Monday U.S. Supreme Court ruling that lets federal agents cut razor wire the state installed to deter border crossings. “Governor Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create …

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SCOTUS Sides With Feds On Texas Border Razor Wire

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday in a dispute over a concertina-wire barrier erected by Texas along the Mexican border. The justices temporarily lifted an appeals court’s ruling that had generally prohibited federal officials from removing the wire. The Supreme Court’s brief order gave no reasons, which is typical when the …

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Texas State Troopers “Physically Barred” Border Patrol Agents Trying To Rescue Drowning Migrant Children

The Texas Tribune reports: A woman and two children drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande, near the Eagle Pass park that Texas troopers have taken control over, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed on Saturday. State officers and National Guard members have been denying federal Border Patrol agents entry to the 47-acre …

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NYC Sues Migrant-Shipping Bus Companies For $700M

Just in via press release: New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Corporation Counsel Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix today announced a lawsuit against 17 charter bus and transportation companies that seeks to recoup all costs New York City has incurred providing emergency shelter and services to migrants transported by the charter bus companies — totaling at least approximately …

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DOJ Sues TX Over Law Giving State Immigration Powers

CBS News reports: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Texas over the state’s implementation of a new immigration law allowing state and local law enforcement officials to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants who may have entered the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration warned Texas that it would file a suit if Texas didn’t assure federal officials by Wednesday …

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Texas Gov Dumps 400 Migrants On NYC Suburbs

Via press release from the New Jersey city of Secaucus: Yesterday morning the Secaucus Police Department and town officials received word from the Hudson County Executives’ Office that several buses transporting migrants in route for New York had arrived at the train station at Secaucus Junction. The first bus arrived the morning of December 30th. From what we understand after …

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Texas Gov Dumps 350 Migrants In Chicago Suburb

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: In a statement, the city of Chicago said a private Boeing 777 from San Antonio, coordinated by Eastern Airlines, landed in Rockford carrying 350 people seeking asylum. After landing, the passengers were put on eight buses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, according to a city of Chicago spokesperson. The buses dropped the migrants in the …

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TX Gov Blasted For “Reckless” Migrant Flight To Chicago

The Hill reports: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) went after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday after the governor sent a flight full of migrants from Texas to Chicago. “What Gov. Abbott is doing is, quite frankly, it’s reckless,” Johnson said in a CNN interview. “Sending buses all over the state of Illinois and all over the country is …

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GOP Rep: The Border Patrol Works As “Travel Agents”

“We have brave men and women of Border Patrol who are down there ready, willing and able, who want to enforce our laws, who want to fight for our country. And instead, as you point out, they’re being assigned tasks like passing out blankets and working as travel agents to just bring people into this country. “We don’t know who …

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Florida Guard Gets Weapons Training To Battle Migrants

The Orlando Sentinel reports: A select group of volunteers expected to help Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intercept migrants at sea gathered at a Panhandle combat training facility this fall for lessons on how to use rifles and pistols, treat “massive hemorrhages” and practice “aerial gunnery.” A $1.2 million purchase order signed in August makes clear the DeSantis administration felt it …

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TX Gov Signs Bill To Have State Police Arrest Migrants

The New York Times reports: Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday escalated his challenge of President Biden’s border policies by signing a measure that allows Texas law enforcement officials to arrest migrants who enter the state from Mexico without legal authorization, setting the stage for a showdown with the federal government. Mr. Abbott pushed for the legislation, which passed in a …

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