Implementing a new law to punish traffickers of fentanyl and declaring deaths from the drug as a health crisis could curb the damage it is doing to the country.
Border Patrol agents nabbed 15 illegal immigrants listed on the FBI’s terror watch list trying to sneak across the US-Mexico border in May — a month that also saw a record number of migrant encounters, according to official figures.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is looking to investigate and prosecute parents who pay transnational criminal organizations to smuggle their children illegally across the U.S. southern border.
A national law enforcement organization has sued the Biden administration's top border officials for withholding information about how the White House handled a 2021 incident in which President Joe Biden accused Border Patrol agents of whipping migrants.
Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo said he never considered himself the incident commander of the scene of last month's school shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, and that he did not order police to hold back on breaching the building.
