Jan 20, 2025 · These catch-and-release policies undermine the rule of law and our sovereignty, create substantial risks to public safety and security, and divert critical resources away from stopping the entry of...

Jan 20, 2025 · Our southern border is overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narcotics that harm ...

6 days ago · AUSTIN, Texas – Texas National Guard soldiers at the state's southern border now have the authority to arrest people who enter the U.S. without authorization after a new agreement with the...

Jan 22, 2025 · Fentanyl and other drugs are pouring over the border and flooding our communities, killing roughly 75,000 Americans in 2023—the number one cause of death for Americans ages 18-45.

Jan 30, 2025 · Noting that he served as an officer at Guantanamo Bay while on an active-duty National Guard deployment from 2004 to 2005, Hegseth said Guantanamo Bay is the "perfect place" to safely detain the ...

Feb 3, 2025 · Republican Gov. Greg Abbott gave Texas Guard members the power to arrest migrants on trespassing charges in 2021, but that order was limited to encounters on border landowners’ private property.

Feb 1, 2025 · There is a sense among Border Patrol agents and others that there is more to come. Isacson said he believes the administration may see a model in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star,” which thrust the state’s National Guard into a central role in border enforcement.. The Defense Department deployed 1,600 active-duty troops to the border during Trump’s first week in office.

Jun 15, 2023 · On May 2, 2023, the Biden Administration announced that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved a request from Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to send an additional 1,500 active-duty members of the Armed Forces to assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents with a potential influx of migrants after pandemic-era he...

Oct 24, 2024 · More than 390 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended attempting to cross our Southwest and northern borders between ports of entry since the beginning of FY2021—an increase of more than 3,000 percent compared to FY2017-2020.

Apr 13, 2021 · WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to temporarily surge security forces to their borders in an effort to reduce the tide of migration to the U.S. border.