U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks reported a 55 percent drop in migrants encountered along the border during the past week. Migrant apprehensions fell from more than 10,000 during the previous week to less than 5,000 during the past seven days.

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According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol is applying a legal process known as Expedited Removal on a broad scale along the southwest border. The agency is now returning migrants to Mexico soon after apprehension. The source told Breitbart Texas, “'Catch and Release' is over, it’s 'Catch and Return now.'”

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is installing new wall panels along the Mexico-New Mexico border. The effort is designed to fill gaps in areas left wide open by the Biden administration.

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El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an American hiker after the hiker was strafed by "suspected cartel terrorists." The shooting took place near the California-Mexico border close to Jacumba, California.

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During a meeting on Wednesday of the Senate Committee on the Budget, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) told Office of Management and Budget Director Nominee Russell T. Vought that his America First Act would ban illegal immigrants from receiving welfare and other benefits.

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WASHINGTON, DC -- Newly sworn President Donald J. Trump said he will declare a state of emergency during his first day in office. The president went on to say he will end the Biden-era "catch and release" policies that allowed millions of "asylum seeking" migrants into the U.S. interior after they illegally crossed the border into the United States.

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According to a source within the Department of Homeland Security, hundreds of staffers who usually would not work on federal holidays have been kept at work on Martin Luther King Day in anticipation of the Trump administration's immediate release of new operation instructions. The source says the biggest expectation of immediate policy changes will be in the border security arena.

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A West Texas sheriff's deputies arrested a Venezuelan asylum seeker last week for smuggling a group of migrants into the interior of the U.S. The migrants were part of a steady stream of migrants apprehended in Terrell County, Texas, during the final days of the Biden administration.

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