All posts tagged "Bordersecurity"

Congressman Chuck Edwards (R-NC) Tuesday posted an image on social media of a purported migrant surge with a photo of Joe Biden and the caption, "I did that."

Edwards posted the photo on X, writing no words with it.

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US Senate negotiators have reached a framework on a border security bill that will be unveiled as soon as next week, with a vote before the election likely despite former President Donald Trump's efforts to delay it.

According to CNN, Sens. James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) have agreed on a border package aimed at curbing the flow of migrants at the Southern border. The framework stipulates that the Department of Homeland Security would be granted emergency powers to shut down the border outside of all legal points of entry if there are more than 5,000 encounters at the border in one week. Special considerations would still be in place for migrants who can prove that they're fleeing torture or persecution in their home countries.

In addition to the strict measures at the border, the bill would also drastically shorten the period of time in which asylum cases can be considered from 10 years to just six months. And even under the new emergency powers, there would still be a mandatory minimum of 1,400 asylum applications to be processed for migrants coming through ports of entry. President Joe Biden voiced support for the framework on Friday and has said previously that he would sign a bipartisan bill if it made it to his desk....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two self-styled militia members, who were arrested after one shot at FBI agents at the Lake of the Ozarks, planned to travel to Texas to shoot at undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and murder Border Patrol agents who would have tried to stop them, according to new charges filed against them. Jonathan O’Dell, 33, of Warsaw in Missouri’s Benton County, and 37-year-old Bryan Perry, of Tennessee, were arrested in October after Perry allegedly fired 11 shots at multiple FBI special agents trying to execute a search warrant at O’Dell’s residence. At the time,......

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has since last week reported a steady increase in migrant arrivals — even as volunteers welcoming the desperate travelers to New York City say they’re not seeing a massive influx amid a drop in U.S. southern border crossings. Molly Schaeffer, Adams’ director of asylum-seekers operations, said in a private phone briefing Thursday with local lawmakers that more than 900 migrants arrived this past Monday alone, according to a recording of the call obtained by the New York Daily News. That came on top of roughly 4,300 migrants Schaeffer said arrived last......

SAN DIEGO — When a 33-year-old man from Afghanistan who had worked for the U.S. Army as a translator crossed onto U.S. soil from Tijuana, he thought he'd finally made it to a place where he would be safe. Instead, Obaidullah found himself trapped with more than 100 other asylum-seekers in what has become an open-air holding cell between the two layers of border wall. He said Border Patrol agents required them to wait there in custody with no shelter, no food and minimal water, the latest in what has become a pattern for the San Diego sector. "There are no rights for humans now," he said from i......

SAN DIEGO — Armed bandits have robbed and assaulted groups of migrant border-crossers at least three times in recent weeks near the Otay Mountain wilderness area, Border Patrol officials said Thursday. The attacks come six months after Border Patrol agents found three migrants shot and wounded in the same vicinity. Those victims said they were shot in Mexico just before crossing the international boundary. The series of holdups and assaults increases an already dangerous journey for migrants who often face some combination of extreme heat or bitter cold, a lack of food and water, rugged mounta......