The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved by voice vote Sen. John McCain’s Arizona Borderlands Protection and Preservation Act. The legislation would grant Customs and Border Protection personnel immediate access to federal land on the Arizona border, including for motorized patrols and the placement of communications, surveillance and detection equipment. McCain said federal agents […]
Surge 2.0: Border Patrol Preps for Another Long Summer
Border Patrol agents are preparing for another summer of Central American and Mexican unaccompanied minors pouring over the Southern Border. Right now, the Border Patrol estimates they will catch 39,000 minors and 53,000 families at the border this year. While this is down from the Great Surge in 2014, it will still nearly triple the […]
Arizona must offer driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court decided Wednesday that Arizona must offer driver’s licenses to young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children but were later shielded from deportation by President Barack Obama. In a 6-3 decision, the justices turned down an emergency appeal from outgoing Gov. Jan Brewer, who argued that the state had the right […]