ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Convicted of Sexual Assault in Virginia amid Capture of 7,400 in Trump’s First Two Weeks

Nicolas Alberto Hernandez-Lopez

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday that the federal agency arrested a previously convicted, twice deported illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted a Virginia woman.

The immigration agency revealed the January arrest of Nicolas Alberto Hernandez-Lopez, a citizen of El Salvador who was previously convicted of the second-degree sexual assault of a Fairfax County, Virginia woman in 2019, when the immigrant was determined to have violated the terms of his admission into the country.

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Phoenix High School District Refuses to Comply with Trump Administration Crackdown, Declares Itself a ‘Safe Zone’ from ICE Arrests

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In response to the Trump administration’s new policies cracking down on illegal immigration, the Phoenix Union High School District (PUHSD) issued a resolution earlier this week declaring it will not comply. The Department of Homeland Security issued a directive on January 21 rescinding a policy implemented in 2011 under the Obama administration that prevented illegal immigration raids at or near schools or other “sensitive locations” unless an “exigent circumstance” exists, such as a national security threat. PUHSD’s resolution, issued in response, stated that the school district is a “Safe Zone” so the school can deny ICE officials information and entrance onto the premises. 

The resolution claimed that federal immigration law enforcement activities “harmfully disrupt the learning environment.” It said, “[I]t continues to be the policy of PXU not to allow any individual or organization to enter a school site if the educational setting would be disrupted by that visit…”

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Venezuelan Gangsters, Child Predators and One Suspected Terrorist: Trump Admin Announces Huge Illegal Migrant Round-Up

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The Trump administration is removing hundreds of illegal migrants from the United States daily as it follows through on a campaign pledge to implement a hardline enforcement agenda.

A total of 538 illegal migrant criminals were arrested on Thursday and deportation flights via military aircraft are already underway, a Trump administration spokesperson stated Thursday. Among those arrested include a suspected terrorist, four members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and several individuals convicted of sex crimes against children.

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Illegal Aliens Fleeing New York City Ahead of Expected Deportation Efforts

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As President Donald Trump resumes office, illegal aliens in the sanctuary city of New York are already fleeing out of fear of the expected deportation operations that the 45th and 47th president has promised.

As the New York Post reports, several illegals admitted that their reason for fleeing was the expectation that the new president will follow through on his campaign pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. A 31-year-old Venezuelan illegal named Kervin Nava confessed that he is “making arrangements somewhere else,” while another illegal from Colombia, 29-year-old Kevin Llena, said that “the idea of raids at the hotel…worries me.”

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Five Men Arrested at Alleged Tennessee Brothel Are Venezuelan, Held on ICE Immigration Detainer

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Five men were arrested following the execution of a search warrant on Wednesday at a property in Antioch, Tennessee by state federal law enforcement agencies including the Metro Nashville Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and the FBI.

The search warrant and arrests were first announced on social media by MNPD on Monday, when the department confirmed the five arrests were part of “an ongoing human trafficking investigation,” and the residence “is a suspected brothel.”

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Metro Nashville Police Department Seemingly Ignores Law Demanding Agency Notify ICE When Arresting Illegal Immigrants

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A frequently asked questions web page for the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) indicates the police force does not report immigration status of criminal offenders to federal police in apparent defiance of a law passed earlier this year.

Governor Bill Lee signed legislation in April that made a one-word change in Tennessee law in order to mandate every law enforcement agency in Tennessee must, “communicate with the appropriate official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully present in the United States or otherwise cooperate with the appropriate federal official in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States.”

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Trump’s Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan Sees a Huge Problem with Biden’s New Deportation Numbers

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President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar said that while the Biden administration’s latest deportation numbers appear high, they aren’t actually indicative of increased enforcement actions across the country.

More than 271,000 illegal migrants were deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in fiscal year 2024, marking the largest number of foreign nationals removed from the United States in a decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Biden administration. However, Tom Homan — a former acting director for the agency and the incoming border czar for the Trump administration — said these removals were largely a result of Border Patrol apprehensions and not indicative of immigration enforcement in the interior of the country.

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Convicted Homicide Rate Among ‘Non-Detained’ Illegal Migrants 13 Times Higher Than U.S. Average, Costing Americans $166 Billion: Report

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A new report written by Crime Prevention Research Center President Dr. John R. Lott based on data provided by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that not only have the crimes committed by illegal migrants cost U.S. taxpayers at least $166.5 billion, but the severity of those crimes is much higher than American norms.

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Biden’s Border Crisis: ICE Reports Record Number of Deportations as Non-Detention Docket Swells to 6.2 Million

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The greatest number of illegal foreign nationals on the docket for deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Non-Detention Docket (NDD) was reported under the Biden administration.

The greatest number was 6.2 million in fiscal 2023, followed by 4.7 million in fiscal 2022 and 3.6 million in fiscal 2021, according to an ICE 2023 annual report.

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Youngkin to Propose Statewide Ban on ‘Sanctuary Cities’ in Virginia

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Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is expected to introduce a budget proposal on Thursday that would include a ban on “sanctuary cities,” and state funding for cities that do not comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Mayors of self-proclaimed “sanctuary cities” across the United States have already teased that they will not comply with the incoming Trump administration’s efforts to deport massive amounts of illegal immigrants.

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California County Dems Move to Shield Migrants Charged with ‘Heinous Crimes’ from ICE

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San Diego County doubled down on its existing sanctuary policy by voting to further restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, even in cases where migrants have been charged with “heinous crimes.”

In a 3-1 vote on Tuesday, members of the Democrat-controlled San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to further restrict local law enforcement’s ability to assist or communicate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in the jurisdiction, which could include instances where a migrant has been charged with rape, assault, child abuse or other serious crimes.

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Trump Reveals His Picks to Lead Two Major Immigration Enforcement Agencies

Caleb Vitello, Rodney Scott

President-elect Donald Trump announced his nominations to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), two agencies that will be at the forefront of his ambitious immigration agenda.

In a string of social media posts Thursday night, the president-elect announced the nominations of Caleb Vitello to lead ICE and Rodney Scott to lead CBP. Both men have worked for years in their respective agencies, with Vitello currently serving as the assistant director for the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs with the agency, and Scott formerly serving as the Border Patrol chief in both the first Trump administration and Biden administration.

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Commentary: The Undercounted Statistics of Illegal Immigrants

In June, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a nine-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to the U.S. illegally to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022. 

“That should never have been allowed to happen,” said Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, referring to the numerous missed red flags the case presented. His office apprehended Hernandez in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Sanctuary Cities Freed Tens of Thousands of Criminal Aliens Wanted by ICE During Biden Era, Data Shows

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Sanctuary jurisdictions have freed tens of thousands of criminal migrants during President Joe Biden’s time in the White House, federal law enforcement data show.

Sanctuary cities and other localities across the U.S. have freed more than 22,000 criminal migrants wanted by federal immigration authorities since January 2021, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). The numbers pertain to ICE detainer requests ignored by local law enforcement agencies, instances when the enforcement agency provided insufficient notice to ICE or early releases of migrants subjected to detainer requests.

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President-Elect Trump Brings Deportation Chiefs into White House, Away from Entrenched Agencies

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nods for immigration and border-related posts appear to suggest he plans to keep the major-decision making on those issues within the White House rather than in offices of executive branch agencies filled with career government employees. Trump has vowed to pursue the mass deportation of illegal aliens from the country, beginning on his first day. He has cited President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” as precedent for such an undertaking. 

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Democrat Governors, City Leaders Pledge to Shield Illegal Immigrants from Trump’s Agenda

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Democratic governors and other liberal elected officials have lined up to declare that they will fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.

Trump, who won the election on Tuesday in an electoral landslide, has promised to conduct mass deportations across the country and withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, along with a slate of other hawkish enforcement proposals. However, Democratic governors in Massachusetts, California and Illinois — all of whom have been speculated as potential 2028 presidential contenders — and other elected leaders have said they will use their authority to push back against the upcoming administration’s agenda.

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Skrmetti: Federal Government’s Responsibility to Enforce Immigration Laws

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The Tennessee General Assembly has been “unequivocally clear ” that illegal immigration is a high priority for them, but there’s only so much a state can do, the state’s attorney general said.

Jonathan Skrmetti told The Center Square in a telephone interview when he goes out and talks to people across Tennessee, he can’t think of a time when he hasn’t gotten questions about the subject.

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Hundreds of Potential Tren De Aragua Gang Members Active in U.S., DHS Report Reveals

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified hundreds of migrants in the United States who may be connected to an international crime syndicate originating from Venezuela, according to NBC News.

DHS officials suspect more than 600 foreign nationals living in the U.S. have ties to Tren de Aragua, according to data obtained by NBC News. Around 100 of the 600 migrants that DHS has identified as “subjects of interest” are confirmed members of the international gang, while others could be witnesses, victims or are members themselves.

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Nearly 11 Million Illegal Immigrant Encounters Have Occurred Since Biden-Harris Took Office: GOP

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Nearly 11 million illegal immigrant encounters have occurred nationwide since Biden-Harris took office, according to GOP lawmakers who cited the latest data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

In September, there were 101,790 illegal crossings at the southern border, including migrants who made asylum appointments at ports of entry through the CBP One app.

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Trump-Era Official Warns of ‘Widespread’ Student Visa Fraud

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The student visa program is susceptible to fraud, according to a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official.

Jon Feere spoke to The College Fix about his findings on student visa fraud, which he has written is “widespread.” Prior to joining the Center for Immigration Studies, Feere (pictured) worked as a senior advisor to ICE and as its chief of staff in the Trump administration.

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Report: ‘High Risk Noncitizens’ Without IDs Flying Across U.S.

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Twenty-three years after Islamic terrorists used airplanes to conduct the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the federal agency created to protect Americans from national security threats “cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country.”

The potentially high-risk noncitizens are being flown on domestic flights without identification, creating a public safety risk, according to the latest Office of Inspector General report assessing several federal agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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Congressman Scott DesJarlais Sends Letter to ICE Deputy Director Demanding Accurate Data on Crimes Being Committed by Juvenile Illegal Immigrants

U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner on Thursday requesting accurate data regarding crimes committed by juvenile illegal immigrants.

As of July 21, 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories were on ICE’s national docket, which includes both those detained by ICE and those on the agency’s non-detained docket.

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Commentary: The Shocking New Data on Illegal Immigrant Crime

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The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) checks the background of illegal aliens they have in custody. But, the administration’s letter to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) shows that as of July 21, 2024, ICE let 435,719 convicted criminals and 226,847 people with pending criminal charges in their home countries into the U.S.

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158 House Democrats Vote Against Deporting Illegal Immigrant Sex Offenders

The U.S. House passed a bill to deport illegal foreign nationals convicted of domestic violence and sex-related offenses, including sex crimes against children, but not without controversy.

Nearly all Democrats voted against the bill filed by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, on Thursday. They attacked the bill before they voted on it; Mace said their remarks were “shameful.”

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Twice the Number of ICE Detainers Issued Under Trump than Biden, Analysis Reveals

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Twice the number of detainers were issued for criminal illegal foreign nationals under the Trump administration than the Biden administration, according to a new analysis of federal data published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). The nonprofit data research center is affiliated with the Newhouse School of Public Communications and Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.

Detainers are issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), otherwise known as “immigration holds,” to apprehend and detain often violent individuals wanted for a crime in another country, arrested or convicted of one in the U.S., or placed in removal proceedings by a federal immigration judge.

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ICE Incapable of Monitoring Unaccompanied Minors Released into U.S., Inspector General Says

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The Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a management alert to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make it aware of an urgent issue: ICE is incapable of monitoring hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children (UACs) released into the country by the Biden-Harris administration.

“We found ICE cannot always monitor the location and status of unaccompanied migrant children who are released from DHS and HHS custody,” HHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said in a memo to the deputy director of ICE.

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Man Charged with Attempted Second-Degree Murder in Knoxville Pickaxe Attack Is Illegal Immigrant: ICE

Jeinson Hernandez-Moran

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued an immigration hold for Jeinson Hernandez-Moran, who is charged with attempted second degree murder in Knoxville after he allegedly struck another person in the head with a pickaxe. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly confirmed Hernandez-Moran is an illegal immigrant.

The Knoxville Police Department (KPD) reported the incident on Sunday, when it revealed a suspect was detained, and later confirmed Hernandez-Moran was charged with attempted second-degree murder after police claim he “critically injured another man,” who remained hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn Demands Answers after DHS Report Reveals ICE Has Lost Thousands of Unaccompanied Migrant Children

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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Patrick Lechleitner this week demanding answers after a recent report revealed that ICE has lost track of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children over the last five years.

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Blackburn Introduces Resolution to Condemn for ‘Border Czar’ Failure

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a resolution to formally condemn Vice President and Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris for her failures as President Joe Biden’s appointed “border czar.”

“Since her very first day in office, Vice President Harris – President Biden’s designated Border Czar – has refused to take the national security and safety crisis at our southern border seriously,” Blackburn said in a press release announcing the resolution. “The Biden-Harris administration has presided over more than 10 million illegal border crossings and has released nearly 100 individuals on the terrorist watchlist into our country. Vice President Harris can run, but she cannot hide from her disastrous record that has killed countless innocent Americans.”

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Retired Border Patrol Chief Sounds the Alarm on Kamala Harris Border Crisis ‘Fix’

Rodney Scott and Kamala Harris (composite image)

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is attempting to cast her as a tough-on-the-border candidate, but a former leader of the Border Patrol is warning the public not to buy it.

The Harris campaign has released a slate of advertisements that claim the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate would “fix the border” and crack down on illegal immigration by increasing the number of Border Patrol agents. However, retired Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who led the agency while Harris served as “border czar,” says voters must look at her record to understand how she would really handle border security.

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Virginia County Supervisor Calls for End of Sanctuary Policies In Wake of Illegal Migrant Arrests for Murder

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A county supervisor in Virginia on Monday called for an end to sanctuary laws for illegal migrants after two murder suspects were confirmed to be living in the U.S. illegally, 7News reported.

Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity, the one-and-only Republican supervisor in the deep blue jurisdiction, is demanding county officials put an end to laws that protect illegal migrant criminals in the county, according to 7News. Herrity’s public comments follow a brutal murder earlier this month along a popular hiking trail in Oakton, Virginia, with accusations that at least one of the illegal migrant suspects benefited from sanctuary laws before the murder.

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ICE St. Paul Field Office Removes Illegal Immigrant Wanted for Rape of a Minor in Mexico

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A federal immigration enforcement office based in St. Paul has removed an illegal immigrant who was wanted in Mexico for rape of a minor.

On July 18, Andres Palacios Pizano, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant, was transferred to Mexican authorities after being picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) St. Paul Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) office. A “recidivist offender of U.S. immigration law,” Pizano has been removed from the United States by ICE six times since 2017.

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Criminals Released in Arizona by Border Patrol Later Arrested in New England

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Border Patrol agents continue to release violent criminals into the U.S. who are later arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers thousands of miles away. While numerous examples exist, in three recent cases, Border Patrol agents in Arizona released violent criminals who were later arrested nearly 3,000 miles away in New England.

On June 12, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations-Boston agents arrested an Ecuadorian illegally living in Northampton, Massachusetts, who was wanted by Ecuadorian authorities.

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ISIS Smuggling Network Confirmed Weeks After Tennessee Congressman Warned of ISIS Crossings

Two weeks after a U.S. Tennessee representative sent out a warning about members of the terrorist group ISIS crossing the open southern border, news has emerged that an ISIS smuggling network has brought more than 400 illegal migrants into the country.

Three Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told NBC News that “over 400 immigrants from Central Asia and elsewhere who crossed into the U.S. in the past three years as ‘subjects of concern’ because they were brought by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network.”

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Another Report Says CBP, ICE Not Detaining, Removing Inadmissibles Flying into Country

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The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued another report identifying ongoing problems with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processes.

A regional CBP and ICE detention and removal processes were ineffective at one major international airport, the OIG audit found. The report redacts the name and location of the airport and CBP and ICE regional offices.

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Report: The Biden Regime has Released 7.4 Million Migrants into the Country as Part of Catch and Release Program

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Over seven million border crossers—including unvetted potential criminals, spies, terrorists and gang members—have been released into the country as part of the Biden Regime’s catch and release program, according to internal federal data obtained by Fox News. Another 1.9 million who snuck across the border between ports of entry are also loose in the country as Border Patrol agents have been pulled off the line to process “asylum seekers.”

The staggering numbers have prompted national security experts to warn that the threat of a terrorist attack in the coming months is at an all-time high, and have Republicans scrambling to tighten voting laws to prevent non-citizens from voting in the November elections.

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Border Experts: Biden Plan will Bring Another 2 Million into Country a Year

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Former Border security leaders serving under multiple presidents and whose careers span decades in law enforcement say President Joe Biden’s “border security” announcement Tuesday won’t secure the border but instead will facilitate more illegal immigration, bringing in another two million people into the country illegally a year.

“The border will never be ‘shut down’ under this executive action but rather serve to legalize an unjustified level of open borders that will further perpetuate the chaos and lawlessness we’ve experienced during the entirety of the Biden Administration,” former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan told The Center Square. “The proposed action will, at a minimum, allow more than one million illegal aliens to be released into the county annually, along with another one million inadmissible aliens being allowed to fly into interior airports within the U.S.,” referring to the CBP One app that allows migrants to apply for entry remotely.

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Illegal Immigrant Accused of Murdering Laken Riley Pleads Not Guilty

Jose Antonio Ibarra

The man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley pled not guilty during an arraignment hearing on Friday.

Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national living unlawfully in the United States, pled not guilty to charges that he killed Riley during his arraignment hearing in a Clarke County courtroom, according to local reporters on the scene. The not guilty plea now means the case will head to trial.

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