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Border crime testimony: Caged women in stash house, 2-year-old fentanyl poisoning(The Center Square) – A north Texas sheriff testified before a congressional hearing Tuesday about cartel and border-related crime impacting his county. Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn described border-related crimes… Read More
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Border Patrol agents continuing to apprehend violent criminals, gang members(The Center Square) – Border Patrol agents are continuing to apprehend violent criminals and gang members who are nearly all military age foreign nationals who entered the country illegally. In… Read More
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Tucson border agents seizing enough fentanyl, meth to kill billions of people(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Tucson Sector of Arizona are seizing enough fentanyl and methamphetamine alone to kill billions of people. Similar to… Read More
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Border officials stop another way to smuggle in fentanyl: hamburgers(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at El Paso area ports of entry seized a large amount of drugs being smuggled into the country in… Read More
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Border crisis worsens as Mexico dries out south Texas farmers(The Center Square) – The border crisis continues to worsen as the Mexican government dries out south Texas farmers, those in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley argue. The situation has become… Read More
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Biden border policy critics lament ‘migrant crime wave’(The Center Square) – House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green blasted President Joe Biden for the wave of illegal immigrants entering the U.S., saying a “migrant crime wave”… Read More
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Texas counties changing national conversation on border crisis as invasion(The Center Square) – Three years ago this April, a small border county took a stand to defend its few thousand residents after they were inundated by border-related crime. On… Read More
Border, Drugs
Feds seizing massive amounts of cocaine in marine operations(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (CBP-AMO) agents and U.S. Coast Guard crews are seizing large quantities of cocaine attempting to be smuggled… Read More
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Border crisis: Water scarcity forces Texas’ last sugar mill to close(The Center Square) – The border crisis has taken on many forms in Texas, from crime to fentanyl poisonings to farmers and ranchers losing their livelihoods. Another casualty of the… Read More
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Court hands Texas a win in lawsuit over federal border wall construction(The Center Square) – A U.S. District Court handed Texas a win in the first round of a case that consolidated two lawsuits filed against the Biden administration for halting… Read More
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Within hours of appeal, Supreme Court stays appellate ruling on Texas border bill(The Center Square) – Within hours of a federal appeals court decision Monday allowing a new Texas law to stand that makes illegal entry into the state from a foreign… Read More
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$2.3M request for supporting Missouri troops at border gets bipartisan support(The Center Square) – Legislative leaders from both parties are supporting Republican Gov. Mike Parson’s request for $2.3 million to send Missouri National Guard troops and State Highway Patrol troopers… Read More
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Laken Riley murder puts tragic young face on Biden’s open-border policies, says Missouri Sen. Eric SchmittThe brutal, appalling murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, has laid open the bloody consequences of President Joe Biden’s open-border policies. That’s… Read More
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‘Civil war’ narrative is false, Texas officials, Border Patrol union say(The Center Square) – A narrative that a “civil war” or “cold war” between federal law enforcement officers and their state and local counterparts at the southern border in Texas… Read More
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Gov. Parson requests $2.3M in sending 200 Missouri Guard members to Texas border(The Center Square) – Republican Gov. Mike Parson issued an executive order Tuesday declaring a state of emergency in Missouri to send members of the Missouri National Guard and Highway… Read More
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Bill would require feds to reimburse Texas for border security costs(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from north Texas who served as Texas’ Secretary of State under former Gov. Rick Perry, has filed a bill to… Read More
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Within days of visiting Texas border, Louisiana governor sending troops(The Center Square) – Within days of joining Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and a coalition of Republican governors in Eagle Pass, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state legislative leaders announced… Read More
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Operation Lone Star border security funding totals more than multiple state budgets(The Center Square) – The Texas legislature has allocated more than $11.6 billion to border security efforts over a four-year period, the most in state history. It totals more than… Read More
Border, Crime
Border crisis in Houston: Previously deported criminals murder teens, police(The Center Square) – Recent murders of Houstonians highlight how the border crisis is impacting the largest city in the state. While criminal aliens have reportedly committed numerous murders, two… Read More
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Washington, D.C.’s ‘dirty little secret’: Biden never wanted border security, which is why the ‘open border’ bill died, Missouri’s two senators sayMissouri’s two U.S. senators say they didn’t need former President Donald Trump to tell them the border bill that was shot down before launch this week was a horrible idea… Read More