When a Border Patrol agent nabbed Sebastian Gamino-Solis with five illegal immigrants in his BMW earlier this month, he said he'd been trolling through Facebook and responded to an ad seeking drivers. Published May 15, 2022
Arizona has started its own busing campaign to deliver newly arrived illegal immigrants straight to Washington, following in the footsteps of Texas, which pioneered the policy last month. Published May 12, 2022
Homeland Security unveiled a new Spanish-language ad campaign Wednesday aimed at would-be migrants, urging them not to put their lives into the hands of smugglers who are convincing them to make the journey. Published May 11, 2022
Immigrant rights groups demanded Wednesday that President Biden launch an investigation into his administration's decision-making on granting deportation amnesties, saying predominantly Black and Latino countries are being treated worse than White countries. Published May 11, 2022
President Biden's lawyer, defending the government's immigration policies to the Supreme Court late last month, painted a picture of an administration eager to detain illegal immigrants to the full extent of the law but stymied by a stingy Congress that won't give them any more beds. The numbers, however, don't back that up. Published May 10, 2022
Voters overwhelmingly want stiffer enforcement of America's immigration laws and a clear majority says President Biden's border policies have sparked a drug surge that has cost lives, according to new polling. Published May 9, 2022
Mexican authorities agents recovered the body of a 7-year-old child from the Rio Grande and they and U.S Border Patrol agents were still searching for his 9-year-old brother, who was also believed to have drowned in the river, authorities said Friday. Published May 6, 2022
A crucial part of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s draft majority opinion dismantling the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision came at the back end, with a 31-page appendix detailing myriad state abortion bans in effect at the time the court ruled, including some on the books since the early 19th century. Published May 6, 2022
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation Friday into the Texas Bar Foundation, saying he's heard complaints the lawyers' group is funneling taxpayers' money to organizations that encourage and fund illegal immigration. Published May 6, 2022
Democrats lashed out at administration officials Thursday, saying there's no indication that Homeland Security is ready to handle the massive surge of illegal immigrants that experts say is coming. Published May 5, 2022
The Biden administration cut corners in its rush to announce new rules extending work permits for foreigners in the U.S., including many illegal immigrants, and the divergence from standard procedures could imperil the legality of the policy. Published May 5, 2022
Congressional Republicans have asked Homeland Security's new disinformation chief to appear and brief them on how she sees her role at the helm of the controversial disinformation board. Published May 5, 2022
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas promised senators on Wednesday that he's pushing ICE to deport more people, as he defended the agency's record-low number of removals last year. Published May 4, 2022
Immigration Law Weekly, a publication for immigrant rights lawyers, said this week that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is acting in an "anti-immigrant" manner and should be impeached. Published May 4, 2022
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday he will not ask the Department of Veterans Affairs to send staff to the border to help with the expected surge of illegal immigrants, bowing to critics who said the shift would hurt American veterans' care. Published May 4, 2022
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he takes responsibility for picking Nina Jankowicz to lead his new disinformation board, but said he was not aware of her previous comments that seemed to be disinformation itself. Published May 4, 2022
The federal government has managed to extradite a man accused of bilking the government out of more than $7 million in COVID money, marking the first person to be brought back from overseas to face prosecution. Published May 4, 2022
Republicans announced legislation Tuesday to defund the Homeland Security Department's new disinformation board, calling it an "un-American" attempt to police what people are allowed to say. Published May 3, 2022
A unanimous Supreme Court delivered a win Monday for a Christian group wanting to fly its flag outside Boston's City Hall, ruling that the city's policy unfairly discriminated against religious groups' First Amendment rights. Published May 2, 2022
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that Black Lives Matter is not a domestic terrorist threat, distinguishing the group from right-wing extremists whom he has cast as the most significant terrorism-related danger to the U.S. Published April 28, 2022
