• BORDER SECURITY2021-2024: Record Number of Canadian Illegal Border Crossers

    By Bethany Blankle, The Center Square

    The greatest number of Canadians who’ve illegally entered the U.S. or attempted to illegally enter in recorded U.S. history has been reported under the Biden-Harris administration and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration.

  • BORDER SECURITYICE Incapable of Monitoring Unaccompanied Minors Released into U.S.: IG

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    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.

  • MASS DEPORTATIONTrump Could Do a Mass Deportation. We’ve Done It Before.

    By Patrick G. Eddington

    Historical examples suggest that enacting forced relocation, internment, and deportation is nowhere near the longshot many experts believe. In a second term, the biggest challenge for Trump’s mass-deportation agenda would likely not be legal — the courts cannot be counted on to stand in his way— but logistical and monetary.

  • BORDER SECURITYNorthern Border Sector Continuing to Break Records in Apprehensions

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    The busiest U.S. Customs and Border Protection sector at the northern border continues to break records in apprehensions with foreign nationals coming from 85 countries to Canada to illegally enter the U.S. Apprehensions in 10 months surpass previous 13 fiscal years combined.

  • THE AMERICASColombia Isn’t Ready for a New Venezuelan Migration Wave, Plus Bukele’s Mano Dura Threats Won’t Fix the Economy

    By Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman

    Petro has eroded Colombia’s institutions for managing migration since taking office in 2022, leaving Colombia ill-equipped to handle a new Venezuelan migration wave; Bukele’s mano dura tactics got results on crime, but won’t fix the economy.

  • BORDER SECURITYBiden Administration Gives Up on Texas Border Suit, Ordered to Finish Wall

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    Texas has won another lawsuit against the Biden administration, this time one that requires it to finish building the border wall.  The ruling was issued May 29, with a 60-day window for appeal. Because the Biden administration didn’t appeal by July 29, the court’s order remains in full effect.

  • IMMIGRANTS & TERRORISMAlarmism about Terrorism Is Risky and Unjustified

    By Alex Nowrasteh and Michael J. Ard

    The annual chance of being murdered in an attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist is about one in 4.5 million—about 323 times lower than the chance of being murdered in a normal homicide during that 1975–2023 timeframe. The U.S. ought to be more realistic about the foreign-born terrorist threat. Alarmism in the face of small and manageable risks that probably haven’t arisen is a tremendous vice that policymakers should avoid.

  • BORDER SECURITYFifth Circuit Hands Texas major Win on Rio Grande River Buoy Lawsuit

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    One year after Texas installed marine barriers in the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass, Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Texas has the legal right to do so.

  • BORDER SECURITYHarris Was Never “Border Czar,” Experts Say, Despite Republican Claims

    By Aline Barros

    Immigration and order security experts say Harris was never appointed “order czar.” Rather, early in the Biden administration, she was assigned the task of reducing migration to the U.S. southern border by collaborating with Central American nations to address the root causes of migration through diplomacy, development, and investment.

  • TECH COMPANIES & BORDER SECURITYHundreds of Tech Companies Want to Cash In on Homeland Security Funding. Here's Who They Are and What They're Selling.

    By Dave Maass

    Whenever concerns grow about the security along the U.S.-Mexico border and immigration, the U.S. government generate dollars — hundreds of millions of dollars — for tech conglomerates and start-ups. Who are the vendors who supply or market the technology for the U.S. government’s increasingly AI-powered homeland security efforts, including the so-called “virtual wall” of surveillance along the southern border with Mexico?

  • MIGRANTS & CRIMEReports: DHS’ Parole Programs Allowed Inadmissible Violent Criminals to Enter, Stay in U.S.

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    A wave of violent crime has befallen Americans nationwide connected to parole programs created by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to several reports. A pattern has emerged of single men illegally entering the U.S. who are considered inadmissible under federal law. Instead of being processed for removal, Border Patrol agents released them with a “notice to appear” before an immigration judge several years into the future.

  • BORDER SECURITYAt Half a Mile a Week, Gov. Greg Abbott’s Border Wall Will Take Around 30 Years and $20 Billion to Build

    By Jasper Scherer

    Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it. Texas’ border with Mexico is 1,254-mile long.

  • TERRORISMNew Migration Patterns Could Fuel IS Plans for U.S.: Officials

    By Jeff Seldin

    Recent changes in global migration patterns and smuggling routes have created an opening for terror groups like the Islamic State to set their sights on the U.S. southern border.

  • IMMIGRANTS & CRIMEIllegal Immigrant Murderers in Texas, 2013–2022

    By Alex Nowrasteh

    Crime committed by illegal immigrants is an important and contentious public policy issue, but it is notoriously difficult to measure and compare their criminal conviction rates with those of other groups such as legal immigrants and native‐born Americans. Most research, however, finds that all immigrants in the United States are less likely to commit crime or be incarcerated than native‐born Americans.

  • BORDER SECURITYEvidence Mounts Islamic State Is Looking to the U.S. Southern Border

    By Jeff Seldin

    U.S. intelligence and security officials are increasing their focus on the country’s southern border, worried the constant flow of migrants has attracted the attention of the Islamic State terror group. The heightened concern follows the arrests earlier this month of eight men from Tajikistan, all of whom entered the United States via its southern border with Mexico, some making the trip over a year ago.