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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The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, issued a travel warning about drug cartels using land mines and other explosive devices in key border cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. After initially trying to conceal information about those devices and having previously tried to discredit previous alerts dealing with cartel kidnappings, the Tamaulipas government claimed to welcome the warnings and asked the public to be careful when moving through rural dirt roads.

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President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, the first bill he has approved since returning to office, into law at the White House on Wednesday.

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A court in East Texas sentenced a four-time deported illegal alien to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he pleaded guilty to the murders of five Honduran migrants near Cleveland, Texas, in April 2023. The Mexican national pleaded guilty to Capital Murder in exchange for the sentence.

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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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"United in service and in strength," is the message from the El Paso Sector chief as his agents team up with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the Department of Defense to increase security along the border.

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The terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel blew up a Mexican government vehicle with a landmine in an area just south of the Texas border. The explosion comes as the criminal organization has been using explosives, landmines, and drones as part of an ongoing turf war.

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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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Mexican military forces began building a large-scale migrant detention center in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The project is in preparation for the expected mass deportations announced by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Since the start of

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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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A Swanton Sector Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop 20 miles south of the Vermont-Canada border. A suspect in the agent's death was killed, and another suspect was wounded during the incident.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in riot gear shut down the international bridge to Mexico moments before President Donald Trump took the oath of office. During his inaugural address, the president said he would declare a state of emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border and ordered the end of the Biden-era CBP One immigration app.

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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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What began in January 2017 as the "Women's March" morphed into a smorgasbord of liberal, progressive, and socialist groups rebranded as the "People's March" ahead of President-Elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Despite broadening protest group categories, the rally failed to muster the size of the initial Women's March before Trump's first swearing-in ceremony eight years ago. "Anti-Trump was the only thing the groups seemed to have in common.

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Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) Director John Hudak told state legislators he is aware that his office has been issuing marijuana grow licenses to persons associated with Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO). On Wednesday, Hudak told members of the state legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee that his agency cannot deny the medical licensing requests.

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Three days of shootouts led to several dead gunmen and a gory beheading as members of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation continued their push for control of the western state of Michoacan. This escalation in violence comes one day before Mexican government officials talked about how crime has decreased in recent weeks.

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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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A suspected cop killer shot a U.S. Marshals Service K-9 after the dog found him hiding in a trash dumpster. Police returned fire, striking and killing the suspect. K-9 Rocky is expected to survive.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the flags on the State Capitol and other State buildings to be at full-staff on January 20 to celebrate the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump. The flags are currently at half-staff in memory of the late President Jimmy Carter.

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