Author: Anna Giaritelli
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Republicans amplify calls for Senate to convict Mayorkas in impeachment trial
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Republicans are upping the pressure on colleagues in the Senate ahead of next week’s impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. House managers in the case will deliver the two articles of impeachment to the upper chamber on Wednesday, nearly two months since the lower chamber impeached Mayorkas. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, who…
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Three ways Biden has expanded pathways for immigrants to enter the US
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The Biden administration has admitted hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are not on visas or green cards, raising concerns among Republicans who view the programs as legally indefensible and a roundabout way to lower illegal immigration numbers. Over the past year and a half, the Biden administration has rolled out a phone app to…
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Border crisis hits new high as 302,000 immigrants processed in December
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U.S. immigration officials came across a staggering 300,000 immigrants at the southern border in December, making it the highest number of people encountered in a single month in history. U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees stationed at the United States-Mexico boundary processed an average of 10,000 immigrants daily for a grand total of more than…
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Oath of Office: Biden ran on fixing the immigration system, but border crisis burgeons | ANALYSIS
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President Joe Biden’s third year in office was another letdown for immigration “restrictionists” troubled by the unending border crisis, as well as for immigrant rights groups that were left waiting for promises of change to come to fruition despite his taking 500 executive actions on immigration. Biden vowed before taking office in January 2021 not…
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Mexico threatens court-ordered restart of Trump border policy
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AUSTIN, Texas – Whether the Biden administration will be able to follow through on the Supreme Court’s order to restart a Trump administration program that made asylum-seekers temporarily live in Mexico will come down to whether Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador allows it. But the Mexican leader has yet to weigh in on the program, and other…
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Republicans debut major security bill in response to worsening border crisis
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Top House Republicans debuted legislation that aims to enhance security significantly at the United States-Mexico boundary as the border crisis worsened for a sixth consecutive month under President Joe Biden. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York, and a handful…
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Security officials say Capitol attack was premeditated and blame poor preparation on lack of intelligence
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All four security officials responsible for the response to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6 testified that they believed the attack was premeditated, but two blamed not receiving intelligence for delayed and unorganized responses. Acting Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee, former House of Representatives sergeant-at-arms Paul Irving, former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven…
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Biden administration reportedly planning to dismantle ICE immigration enforcement
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The Biden administration is reportedly considering overhauling Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a way that would terminate the jobs of thousands of officers tasked with arresting and deporting immigrants illegally residing in the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently introduced a plan to do away with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arm and…
