Author: Anna Giaritelli

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has activated the state’s National Guard soldiers ahead of a “No Kings” protest in San Antonio on Wednesday evening following days of protests and riots against federal immigration efforts in Los Angeles. The third-term governor announced early Wednesday that state military forces had been sent to various locations across the state,…

Federal immigration authorities plan to crack down on illegal immigrants who legally entered the United States but failed to leave when their documents expired, a move that comes in the aftermath of the terrorist attack by an Egyptian visa overstayer in Boulder, Colorado. Todd Lyons, acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, revealed in…

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect in the Sunday attack on eight people in Boulder, Colorado, is an illegal immigrant who entered the United States during the Biden administration and failed to depart when his visa expired, according to a Trump administration official. Boulder police on Sunday identified Soliman, 45, as a resident of El Paso…

President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency this year for the northern border for human smuggling and drug trafficking. While the nearly 4,000-mile-long border with Canada gets less attention than the high-volume southern border, the boundary presents its own set of challenges. The Washington Examiner visited the northern border to evaluate how security has changed under…

A Democratic senator who represents a southern border state moved to push lawmakers to address immigration reform and border security with a plan that he hopes can please both Democrats and Republicans. Four months into his first term, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a framework on Monday that addresses the “broken” state of America’s border…

The Trump administration has begun reopening immigrant detention facilities and shuttered prisons nationwide, the latest move in its effort to arrest, detain, and then deport illegal immigrants in the United States. Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in virtually every region of the…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) anticipates that Congress will need to pass a bill that locks in conservative border and immigration policies before President Donald Trump leaves office. Lankford, one of three co-authors who spent months in late 2023 drafting a bipartisan border bill that ultimately failed to make it through the Senate, said legal…

Public safety levels in states just outside Washington, D.C., are comparable to much of the country, according to a new study released Tuesday. Maryland and Virginia were ranked far from the bottom of U.S. News and World Report’s 2025 “Best States” list released Tuesday, but there was a clear winner out of the two. The…

New Hampshire was rated the best state in the United States in the category of public safety, according to a new study released Tuesday. Findings from the U.S. News and World Report revealed that the New England state outranked all 49 other states in the metric of public safety, which takes into account violent and property…

The Trump administration has its flashy mass deportation campaign underway, but beneath the surface, the strategy includes convincing millions of immigrants to choose to leave without government assistance by making their lives too uncomfortable to stay in the United States. While the White House has touted its intentions to remove immigrants who illegally entered the…