WASHINGTON—Cross the border into the United States with a child, claim asylum, and you’re home-free. That’s the message smugglers and migrants are hearing, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “Smugglers and traffickers understand our broken immigration laws better than most and know that if a family unit illegally enters the U.S., they are […]

WASHINGTON—Under the Obama administration, the discovery that unaccompanied children were entering the country, mostly illegally, across the Southwest border, and subsequently being placed with human-trafficking rings, galvanized a Senate subcommittee to investigate. Three years and many recommendations later, the committee says not enough has changed. In 2014, during an unprecedented surge of unaccompanied minors crossing […]

WASHINGTON—A new report has found that at least 3,100 noncitizens were registered to vote in 13 so-called sanctuary cities. The report, titled “Safe Spaces,” was published on Aug. 27 by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based public-interest law firm devoted to election integrity. “Few sanctuary jurisdictions use systems established to actively detect unlawful registrations […]

MADRID—Spain will not tolerate violent attempts to enter the country, the government said on Aug. 29, in response to criticism of its swift return of 116 illegal immigrants to Morocco after they stormed the fence bordering one of its North African enclaves. The country’s southern shores have become the main gateway into Europe for illegal […]

WASHINGTON—A new study debunks the common refrain that America needs illegal immigrants to do the jobs that Americans won’t do. Only six of the 474 job categories—defined by the Chamber of Commerce—are filled by a majority of immigrants, and none of the occupations are dominated by illegal immigrants, according to a study released by the […]

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that 160 illegal immigrants were detained on Aug. 28 as part of a surprise raid at a Texas manufacturing facility. The 160 workers were detained at Load Trail, a trailer making firm that had been previously charged with knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, officials said. “Businesses that knowingly […]

WASHINGTON—Although not much tinkering can be done without Congress, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said issues surrounding visas such as the H-1B need to be addressed, but without causing harm to American workers. The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows foreigners to work in the United States for three years, […]

Police have detained 15 out of the 17 people believed to have been on board a boat that ran aground on the morning of Aug. 26 in the Daintree River in far north Queensland. “I understand that 15 people have been now detained on behalf of the Australian Border Force (ABF) and they will be […]

WASHINGTON—A mother whose child was killed by an illegal alien has hit back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s comments about border security, in a CNN interview on Aug. 22. “Elizabeth Warren is something else. Her statement was ridiculous,” said Michelle Root, whose 21-year-old daughter, Sarah, was killed by an illegal alien on the night of her […]

WASHINGTON—Border Patrol agents referred a tractor-trailer to the secondary inspection lane at a checkpoint north of Laredo, Texas, on Aug. 11, after a K-9 alerted them to the presence of concealed humans or narcotics. “The vehicle proceeded to elude and flee the checkpoint,” Border Patrol agent Adrian Anzaldua said during a White House event on […]

Among the pardoning of 36 criminals on Aug. 17, California Gov. Jerry Brown has included three Cambodians who face deportation. The three Cambodians had obtained legal immigration status, but convictions for serious violent crimes triggers the forfeiture of immigration status. The pardons mean the three have effectively been absolved of their crimes. One man, Vanna […]

A member of the gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was sentenced on Aug. 13 to two consecutive life sentences for a laundry list of violent crimes, including murder. Twenty-eight-year-old Raul Ernesto Landaverde-Giron, also known as “Humilde” and “Decente,” of Silver Spring, Maryland, was a member of the MS-13 Normandie Locos Salvatrucha Clique, according to the […]

WASHINGTON—Illegal border crossings fell 8 percent in July compared to June, but the number is still more than double that of last July, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics. More than 31,300 individuals were apprehended by Border Patrol between ports of entry on the southwest border, compared with 34,100 in June and 40,300 […]

WASHINGTON—Under a sanctuary policy, an illegal immigrant walked free from the Philadelphia Department of Prisons and went on to rape a child, according to the Department of Justice. While Juan Ramon Vasquez, a citizen of Honduras, was in custody in 2015, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a detainer on him—requesting that the prison transfer […]

WASHINGTON—More than 700,000 foreign visitors to the United States overstayed their welcome in fiscal 2017, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The report looked at non-immigrant visitors who entered by air or sea—and excluded overstayers from Mexico and Canada. Student and exchange visitors overstayed at double the rate of […]

A man who entered the United States with a girl he claimed was his daughter has been arrested and charged on multiple felony offenses for rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration, and endangering/causing injury to a child. Ramon Pedro and his alleged daughter entered the United States at the Ysleta Port of Entry in Texas […]

WASHINGTON—To help solve the illegal immigration crisis, the United States is working south of the border to curtail the drivers in Central America—namely poverty, high crime, and weak governance. About half of Central America’s population—located in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—lives in poverty, according to State Department estimates. In 2015, El Salvador and Honduras had […]

WASHINGTON—One impact of illegal immigration that is rarely publicized is that of identity theft. Credit scores are shot, mortgages are turned down, a child is unable to get into college, or an individual is ineligible for assistance—there are many forms of identity theft, and many ways it can impact a person. “But when it’s done […]

WASHINGTON—Democrats’ failure to get behind a House resolution to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel has made the midterm election battle “immensely harder for themselves,” said Steve Cortes, a CNN political commentator and head of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s 2016 Hispanic advisory council. H.Res.990, “supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important […]

Individuals from foreign countries who are running from domestic abuse or local criminal activity are no longer eligible for asylum in the United States, according to new policy guidelines distributed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The change is a consequence of a ruling, the Matter of A-B-, by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, published […]