Author: Anna Giaritelli

The Trump Department of Homeland Security has empowered federal law enforcement officers to go into schools and churches to arrest illegal immigrants following a yearslong bar from entering those facilities. The acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman on Tuesday issued a directive to employees at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border…

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens has been replaced at the federal law enforcement organization, and the Trump administration has selected Texas’s top border official, Mike Banks, to fill his boots starting Monday. The Washington Examiner confirmed Friday morning that Banks will start his role at the 20,000-person Border Patrol during “Trump’s swearing-in” at the Capitol on…

President-elect Donald Trump will face a bigger challenge getting control of the U.S.-Mexico border come his second term than he did at the start of his first term, when he also took office after successfully running on a promise to clamp down on illegal immigration. Trump took office in January 2017 following the Obama administration’s…

Nowhere in the United States are “porch pirates,” or thieves who steal packages left on front porches by delivery drivers, more likely to strike than in the nation’s capital, according to a new analysis. Package theft crime rings cost the nation $12 billion in 2023, but the problem appeared to most heavily affect residents of…

Senate Democrats are upping the pressure on the Biden administration to take proactive action and protect hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the United States from possible deportation under President-elect Donald Trump. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) publicly called on President Joe Biden Wednesday to extend…

The findings from a senior Senate Republican’s year-and-a-half investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s response to an influx of unaccompanied immigrant children at the southern border suggest a multitude of “failures” by the federal government. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the top Republican and soon-to-be chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the…

President-elect Donald Trump could soon make good on his promise to do away with the Biden administration’s CBP One app, a government phone app that allows immigrants to apply for admission to the country through programs that circumvent Congress. “As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America. We will stop all migrant…

A number of former Trump administration officials top the list of possible appointees and nominees for new positions within President-elect Donald Trump‘s second term, the Washington Examiner has learned. Sources close to the transition process and who have advised the Trump campaign this cycle on immigration issues told the Washington Examiner on Friday that Trump…

ATLANTA — Georgia voters who have supported and volunteered for Vice President Kamala Harris expressed deep concerns about the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency, describing an America without freedom and dying in darkness under a Republican “dictator.” Voters who attended an invite-only, get-out-the-vote event in midtown Atlanta on Monday evening genuinely feared a doomsday…

Immigration topped all other issues at the start of the election year and returns as the closing message of the presidential campaign in the 2024 election. Along with the economy, healthcare, and democracy, voters have consistently said they are concerned about border security and the impact of illegal immigration on their lives. 2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE…