Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly a year before a flood of unaccompanied children from Central America created a crisis along the border, the Obama administration was warned that the U.S. was not adequately prepared for such a situation, the Washington Post reports. A team of Border Patrol agents was assigned to the Fort Brown patrol station…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border in South Texas has declined over the past 10 days, authorities said. That’s good news for an agency that has become overwhelmed by a surge of children entering the country without their parents, Fox New reports. Since October, federal authorities have arrested more…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jose Antonio Vargas, who has won the Pulitzer Prize, is most known for his detailed chronicling of his life as a Filipino illegally living in the U.S. The New York Times reports that Vargas was detained for most of the day by the Border Patrol. One of the most high-profile advocates of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com “La Bestia” is a hit song in Central America. Turns out, the song, which chronicles the dangers of Mexican freight trains, was reportedly written by Customs and Border Protection as propaganda to discourage immigration to the U.S., the Washington Times reports. “Migrants from everywhere, entrenched along the rail ties/Far away from where…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol’s plan to alleviate the surge of Central American immigrants along the border of Mexico no longer involves flying children and families to San Diego, the USA Today reports. The federal agency halted the experiment following a protest that blocked busloads of immigrants from reaching a processing facility in San Diego….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ICE and Border Patrol are set to run out of money if Congress doesn’t approve a $3.7 billion request for emergency funds from President Obama, the Arizona Republic reports. ICE expects to run out of money by mid-August, while Border Patrol said it could be penniless by mid-September. Both agencies blame the…
By Jackie Gingrich Cushman Townhall.com Based on this fiscal year’s eight-and-a-half months of activity so far, the number of unaccompanied alien children from Honduras apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol will increase 22 times from what it was in 2009. That’s a jump from fewer than 1,000 children five years ago to more than 21,000…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department launched a two-pronged approach to addressing the surge of illegal immigration from Central America, the Washington Examiner reports. The plan aims to help Central American governments address the growing humanitarian crisis and to speed up immigration cases. The Executive Office for Immigration Review will prioritize cases involving immigrants who…
