Two major border enforcement unions attacked the GOP Border Security bill currently winding its way through Congress. House leaders hoped to move H.R. 399, the Secure Our Borders First Act to the House floor by Wednesday but opposition from the National Border Patrol Council has disrupted the timetable: “This legislation speaks about metrics but frankly […]
Border patrol agents say GOP’s border security bill is weak ‘window dressing’
January 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Jackson Lee: Obama already fixed the border
January 23, 2015 By 20 Comments
If you’ve ever wondered why Congress has such a bad reputation, just listen to Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee’s laughably misinformed comments about America’s Southern Border: “The president has spent $108 billion on border security, and we have been successful,” Jackson Lee said in a Homeland Security committee markup Wednesday. “Oh we’ve had our moments, but we […]
New GOP border bill REMOVES border fences
January 22, 2015 By 6 Comments
The Daily Caller — The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of weak border fencing between laborers in Mexico and employers in the United States. The border bills also only require for the construction of 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border. “It […]
House GOP launches secure-borders bill
January 21, 2015 By 8 Comments
The Washington Examiner — House Republicans are officially launching their immigration reform effort Wednesday, with a border security bill aimed at keeping unlawful immigrants from entering the United States. The bill could become the first in a series of measures Republicans take up in what they have promised will be a piecemeal approach to immigration reform […]
Border enforcement helicopter fires warning shots at drug smuggling boat off SoCal coast
January 20, 2015 By 9 Comments
KTLA 5 — For the first time on the West Coast, a federal border enforcement helicopter fired warning shots from the air at a boat en route to Catalina Island, bringing an apparent drug smuggling operation to a halt, authorities said Monday. The shots were fired about 11p.m Saturday from a Blackhawk helicopter operated by U.S. […]
Thousands of illegal minors apprehended to start fiscal year 2015
January 9, 2015 By 13 Comments
Latin Post — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) released data on the number of undocumented immigrants already apprehended during the 2015 fiscal year, and according to the numbers, thousands of immigrant children were caught by border patrol agents to kick off the new fiscal year. The CBP noted 5,143 undocumented immigration children were […]
