Illegal Immigrant Crisis Stings Border Town In Unexpected Way Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Benny Rodriguez, an 80-year-old grandfather of seven, beams as he points to faded photographs on the wall and proudly narrates the story of Eagle Grocery, a family-run business since 1939. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times) It withstood a fire in 1948. It emerged from a flood in 1954. And since 2002, the...
EXCLUSIVE — Authorities in West Texas have begun to see illegal immigrants aiding criminal networks in the stealing of truckloads of valuable oil and materials from the nation’s largest oilfields in the Permian Basin. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district spans 800 miles of the Texas border, organized federal and local law enforcement in the […]
Kinney County, Texas, one of several American border communities, has seen criminal prosecutions explode as illegal immigration has hit record levels on President Joe Biden's watch.
A government mobile app for migrants seeking asylum at the southern border has become controversial on both sides of the immigration debate. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says on its website the CBP One app to schedule appointments at points of entry into the U.S. has "increased CBP’s capacity to process migrants more efficiently and orderly while cutting out unscrupulous smugglers who endanger and profit from vulnerable migrants." Amnesty International, however, said in a report...
By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A former US Border Patrol agent working at a processing center in Texas was sentenced to 1-and-a-half years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to a bribery of a public official charge, according to the court docket. Fernando Castillo’s sentence stems from a 2023 federal criminal case that
By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A former US Border Patrol agent working at a processing center in Texas was sentenced to 1-and-a-half years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to a bribery of a public official charge, according to the court docket. Fernando Castillo’s sentence stems from a 2023 federal criminal case that
An undocumented immigrant from Guatemala was arrested in Florida. Marvin Perez Lopez, 20, was charged for the incident involving a minor. Lopez had crossed the Mexico border illegally after journeying from Guatemala
Russian border guards will maintain their presence in Armenia, said Alexander Bortnikov, candidate for the post of Federal Security Service (FSB) director, TASS reports. Speaking at the Federation Council, he clarified that Russian border guards will continue to carry out service on Armenia’s borders with Turkey and Iran. Bortnikov said that Yerevan has asked to …
Retired British general Sam Cowan’s deep dive into Nepal’s history with British India makes for an engaging read.
The agent said that border patrol has been defunded and overwhelmed. Migrant numbers have exploded as organized crime has obtained more power. READ MORE: Chinese migrants using Mexican IDs to aide passage to US
U.S. Border Patrol agents came under fire while working on the southern border from gunmen operating inside Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to Fox News that shots were fired from the Mexican side of the El Paso, Texas sector on Wednesday afternoon. The CBP said that agents were involved in a "use of force incident while responding to reports of shots fired near the border in the Ysleta Station area of responsibility in Texas." Sources confirmed that CBP agents returned...
A Georgia man has been indicted on murder charges by grand jurors who said he intended to rape a nursing student whose body was found near a running trail on the University of Georgia campus.