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A group of suspected illegal immigrants reportedly docked a boat at a beach in La Jolla, California, on Thursday, then took off into the community. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the Joint Harbor Operations Center called the agency about a pair of “suspicious vessels” carrying the individuals who were headed toward the area at approximately 5:30 a.m., the Epoch Times reported Friday. The first boat landed at Ocean Beach, and officials said two hours later the second boat was traveling towards Windansea, the CBP said. Video footage shows what appears to be one of the boats approaching...

The Senate GOP leadership’s draft border deal with the White House would reward illegal migration and encourage more foreign graduates to take jobs from American graduates, says the Immigration Accountability Project. “There’s nothing in there that [restricts immigration], in fact, it’s just going to encourage more people to come,” said Chris Chmielenski, president of the Immigration Accountability Project, adding: It essentially authorizes the Biden administration to continue to catch and release people into the country. It authorizes them to give them work permits [to illegal migrants and] authorizes them to grant parole [legal status] to everybody that they’re able to...

Arizona rancher says border crisis is 'still outrageous' as illegal migrant crossings surge ... A fifth-generation Arizona rancher said an influx of illegal migrants crossing his land in recent years has increased his fear that terrorists are successfully sneaking into America. ... The ongoing crisis at the southern border is breaking records as illegal migrant entries skyrocket, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The first week of December saw a record-setting 18,900 migrant apprehensions in Arizona's Tucson Sector alone, the section's Chief Border Patrol Agent John Modlin said. By comparison, that's about 2,000 more encounters than all of...

While many Republicans focus on President Joe Biden’s failed policies at the southern border, Rep. Matt Gaetz on Tuesday called attention to the “forgotten invasion” of Florida. The Fort Walton Beach Republican toured the seas with the U.S. Coast Guard just off Miami to get a look at how the crisis of illegal immigration is affecting the Sunshine State.

Biden admin to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track themBiden admin to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track themAfter more than 11,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border on Tuesday, the Biden administration is now preparing a memo that will direct Customs and Border Protection to begin releasing migrants into the U.S. without court dates or the ability to track them, according to three sources familiar with the plans. The Biden administration began releasing migrants without court dates to alleviate overcrowding...

Thousands of asylum seekers will be sent to live in Britain's rural communities Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said migrants will be housed across UK 'We're seeking to procure accommodation more broadly in smaller cities' The Home Office has been warned it could be liable for unlawful detentions Richard Martin, co-owner of the Blazing Donkey Country Hotel near Sandwich, Kent, turned down a £1 million opportunity to house asylum seekers - saying he 'couldn't think of anything more absurd' snip

Union urges voters to support candidates who will re-establish law and order at the border. After another clash with foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S., the union representing Border Patrol agents is urging Americans to vote on Nov. 8 for candidates who will defend them, the rule of law, and the southern border. On Monday, mostly single male Venezuelans, Mexicans and Hondurans crossed the Rio Grande River and attempted to illegally enter the U.S. near El Paso, Texas, and allegedly assaulted Border Patrol agents. The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing the agents, said, "Make no mistake, all of...

Democrats are napping peacefully through the US-Mexico “border” crisis they engineered. Perhaps these data will snap them from their slumber: The US Department of Homeland Security reports that the Mexican cartels’ income from smuggling illegal migrants into America has soared from $500 million in 2018 to $13 billion this year — up 2,500%. ... Border Patrol agents apprehended 951,568 illegal immigrants during President Donald Trump’s final 19 months in office. In Biden’s first 19 months, Border Patrol encountered a staggering 3,588,877 illegals — up a sickening 377%. ... Fentanyl killed some 71,000 Americans in 2021, up 23% versus 2020. For...

YUMA, Arizona (Border Report) — You have probably never heard of the Yuma Gap, but many migrants from all over the world are certainly finding out about it. It’s located in a small corner along the southern border where Arizona, California and Mexico intersect. The border barrier is here, but there are many areas where it’s open and not connected.... ...It’s been widely discussed that unless you’re from Mexico, just about anyone will be given a chance to seek asylum. That’s probably why many of the migrants here are from all over the world including Russia, Uzbekistan, Nepal, India, Haiti,...

If you haven’t heard anything about Border Patrol agents on horseback allegedly “whipping” migrants lately, it’s because the anti-borders Left and the corporate media just had another narrative blow up in its face. After a weeks-long moral panic about Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) agents allegedly mistreating migrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is no longer pursuing an investigation into those agents. The DHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced earlier this month that they will not pursue an investigation of the agents, who were photographed on horseback in front of Haitian migrants earlier this year. At the...

Introduction: Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe in which a confused old man - Joe Buckstop - stumbles into the presidency, and spends his entire term in his basement. Each evening, an aide walks downstairs and serves him his evening snack, and engages him in conversation about current events, in a losing effort to keep the old man's mind somewhat sound. Tonight's episode is an excerpt from the ongoing series, "Evening Soup with Basement Joe," by John F. Di Leo, a fictional chronicle of the events of 2021, a political satire available in paperback or eBook from Amazon. "Hello?...

Two senior U.S. diplomats met face to face with leaders in Haiti this week as the Biden administration looks to stabilize its approach to the island nation and calm pressures from home. Brian Nichols, President Joe Biden’s newly confirmed assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, and Juan Gonzalez, National Security Council senior director, arrived in Port-au-Prince Thursday after a stop in Miami. There, they met with Haitian and Cuban American leaders to discuss the challenges facing both of their countries. “We’re not going there to impose a solution or road map. We’re going there to listen, and particularly...

The top border official in the Biden administration admitted to being caught off guard recently by the spike in delta variant coronavirus cases among migrants at the border.... ...Mayorkas, who has for months refused to speak on the risk that infected migrants who are released into the United States pose to border communities, said upwards of 20% of that population are sick with the highly contagious disease. "We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20%," said Mayorkas, who has been in his position since January. "When...

The Biden administration is telling immigration agents to prepare to process hundreds of thousands of migrant families and asylum claims as the White House moves to reverse Trump-era border and coronavirus policies, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Biden's Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has stated that authentic Cuban refugees fleeing the dungeons and torture chambers of communist totalitarian Cuba, are not welcome here.

SHOCK VIDEO: Alex Jones Catches Migrant Children Being Stuffed in TrunkAlex Jones and the Infowars crew had been tracking the human smuggling operations of the Biden administration. Buses were recorded taking children from the dirt floor child camp under the International Bridge in McAllen to a processing camp in Donna TX. Then moved to a COVID processing center in downtown McAllen from there, they are processed at a Christian Charity, where they are given bus or airplane tickets and moved to the airport or bus station. When the crew was walking to the Christian Charity center near the bus station,...

Healthy young illegal immigrants have been given preferential treatment in receiving the coronavirus vaccines ahead of elderly and vulnerable native Britons, an investigation has found. Migrants who came to the United Kingdom illegally and are now being housed at the taxpayers’ expense at the four-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in London have received free coronavirus vaccinations, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. One illegal Sudanese migrant, 20-year-old Abdul, who crossed in a boat from the safe and wealthy France seven months ago, told the newspaper: “I was given the vaccination yesterday at the hotel to stop me catching Covid. There are...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday defended Mexico’s restrictive immigration policy, which has prevented many Central American migrants from crossing Mexico to reach the U.S. border. Mexico has sent National Guard officers and immigration agents to the southern border with Guatemala to prevent migrant caravans from entering Mexico and detain those who do manage to cross.... ...López Obrador’s willingness to assume ownership of the immigration policies despite evidence of U.S. pressure reflects his nationalist stance on most issues; he has made defending Mexico’s sovereignty a central issue...

ANOTHER weekend, another two thousand-odd immigrants rescued by Italian sailors and coastguards in the Mediterranean. On August 11th the San Giusto, an amphibious transport vessel, landed 1,698 people in Reggio Calabria, a city in southern Italy. The day before, a naval patrol vessel and a frigate disembarked 364 people at ports in eastern Sicily. The number of people arriving in Italy by sea this year may already exceed 100,000. By the end of July approximately 93,000 migrants had been rescued. The previous record for an entire year was set in 2011 when around 60,000 people reached Italian shores at the...

Hundreds of Austin-area high school students — some draped in the Mexican flag, some wearing red, green and white T-shirts, some carrying flags from other countries — took to the streets today to protest proposed changes in U.S. immigration law. [. . .] While the vast majority of students at the protest were Latino, several Anglo students and teachers showed their support by joining the protest, including Lacey Glover, a first-year geography teacher at Lanier, who said she was watching her lessons about nonviolent resistance put into action. "It's pretty ironic — we were learning about Gandhi all this week,"...

A traffic stop for speeding in Dunmore on Wednesday may result in the deportation of 11 alleged illegal aliens from Indonesia. Although state police indicated initially the case may involve human smuggling, federal immigration officials have ruled it out. The incident began when state police from Dunmore stopped a van for speeding at 4 p.m. in the westbound lanes of Interstate 84 near the Tigue Street exit. Police said Eko Safi'i, 832 Hemlock St., who was transporting nine female Indonesians, handed over a fraudulent New Jersey license and a false Indonesian passport. The unidentified females in the van could not...