House Speaker Kevin McCarthy endorses the idea of using the U.S. military to combat Mexican drug cartels and supports designating them as foreign terrorist organizations in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to call the ongoing influx at the southern border a "crisis," saying that admitting the situation was a crisis would indicate a "withdrawal from our mission."
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found that some of the $110 million from the 'American Rescue Plan' for immigrants at the southern border was misused by nonprofits.
Two suspected undocumented immigrants suffocated to death aboard a freight train and 10 others in need of medical care were taken by helicopter or ambulance to hospital on Friday in south Texas, police said.
Border Patrol released Chinese citizens to a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Brownsville, Texas, after being given "NTAs (notices to appear) because there are so many crossing and no more space to house them,” said Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins.
Local authorities and state governments in the northeast U.S. are asking the federal government for more help as they deal with an influx of illegal immigrants crossing from Canada into the U.S.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz contradicts DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' assertion that the government has "operational control" of the southern border.
