Tag Archives: immigration

The Houston Chronicle reports: Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is doing everything to stop border crossings short of shooting migrants because the Biden administration would “charge us with murder.” “We are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can,” the governor said in an interview with conservative commentator Dana Loesch. “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re …

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 …

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 …

The New York Daily News reports: New York City will only allow buses of asylum seekers to arrive between 8:30 a.m. and noon on weekdays going forward, Mayor Adams said Wednesday, instituting the restrictions in concert with Denver and Chicago, which created broader windows for bus arrivals. Adams said New York City’s policy, implemented through executive order, is intended to …

ABC News reports: New York City’s teachers union is suing to block planned cuts to the city’s public schools, warning that steep budget reductions proposed by Mayor Eric Adams would weaken key education initiatives and violate state law. For months, Adams has argued that slashing city spending – including a $550 million cut in education funding – is necessary to …

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 …

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 …

Reuters reports: Britain announced plans to slash the number of migrants arriving by legal routes on Monday, raising the minimum salary they must earn in a skilled job by a third, amid pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to tackle record net migration figures. High levels of legal migration have dominated Britain’s political landscape for more than a decade and …

The Washington Examiner reports: The National Republican Congressional Committee released an AI-generated ad targeting House Democrats wanting to build temporary tent shelters to house the influx of immigrants in national parks. “National Parks overrun with illegal immigrants,” the text reads, using a vintage film overlay, followed by “this is the future extreme House Democrats support.” “More crime. Less tourism. No …

The Dallas News reports: In a blow to Gov. Greg Abbott, a federal appeals court ordered Texas on Friday to remove the border buoys the state installed near Eagle Pass to block migrants. Abbott had turned to the conservative New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which temporarily blocked a lower court’s order three months ago finding that Texas had …

ABC News reports: Tuesday evening, the Texas House of Representatives voted in favor of one of the most controversial and strictest immigration laws in the country. It will have major implications for migrants across the state and may also trigger lawsuits and an international dispute with Mexico. One of the most controversial aspects of the bill would authorize local and …

“I’m not trying to deride the people, but it looks like locusts are coming because they’re going to destroy everything in their path. You’re seeing the end of America. That right there is the end of this nation. End of this nation. End of this nation as the constitutional republic that was bequeathed to our generation. Right there. If you …

Axios reports: A vast majority of Republicans say they support installing deterrents such as razor wire and floating barriers in rivers to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally, even if people are endangered or killed, a new survey finds. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is locked in a legal fight with the Biden administration to keep razor wires and …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to claim he would carry out mass deportations if elected President, contending his “big program” would hearken back to a President seven decades ago. “If you let people come illegally without a sanction, you’re going to continue to have this problem. The sanction is you get deported. So we’re going to do it,” …

The Texas Tribune reports: Mexico will deport certain migrants from some of its northern border cities as part of an agreement with U.S. immigration officials who have reported a sharp increase of migrants attempting to cross the border in recent weeks, according to Mexico’s immigration enforcement authority. Mexico’s National Migration Institute said that it wants to “depressurize” the border cities …

“We’ve never seen 50 million Americans were not born in the United States. Fifteen percent of the population was not born in the United States. Twenty-seven percent of Californians were not born in the United States. This is a real challenge to the survival of the republic, and gosh, whenever you talk about something, they just deny it. And we’re …

Politico reports: GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “gut” the system for H-1B temporary worker visas if he wins the White House. It’s the very system he’s used in the past to hire high-skilled foreign workers for the pharma company that built much of his wealth. From 2018 through 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for …

Mediaite reports: During Harris Faulkner‘s broadcast Friday, Fox News quickly pulled away from a street interview with an anti-migrant protester in New York City when he began threatening Democratic lawmakers. A group of anti-migrant protesters confronted prominent New York Democratic lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Faulkner directed her producers to tune in to a live …

“You have to identify them as being hostile. I mean, if there’s a woman with a baby, they are not a cartel member. There’s not going to be authorization to just shoot somebody like that. But when somebody’s got a backpack on and they’re breaking through the wall, you know that that’s hostile intent, and you have every right to …

NBC News reports: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that as president, he would deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants. “The family unit will be deported,” said Ramaswamy when asked by NBC News if the deportations would include American-born children, after a packed town hall here Friday. These children, however, are U.S. citizens, regardless of their parents’ immigration status. The …