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Eagle Pass in Texas has been flooded with at least 10,000 asylum-seekers a day for weeks and the surge did not take a break for the holiday as many more crossed the river into the US.

As the crisis at the southern border continues to see upwards of 10,000 migrants apprehended every day, the town of Lukeville, Arizona is becoming an epicenter of the failure.

Arizona’s governor signed an executive order deploying National Guard troops stationed in the state to its southern border Friday. “With this Executive Order, I am taking action where the federal government won’t,” Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) said in a statement on the new order. The order comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it…

Border Patrol chiefs say theres a new phenomenon of migrants turning themselves in and not avoiding arrest because they know they will be released.

Border Patrol forces in California, Texas and Arizona are so overwhelmed by the thousands of migrants surging into the US, they're having to take drastic measures to deal with them.

Amid an influx in migrants, the Border Patrol closed some checkpoints in Texas and Arizona to re-assign agents where more help is needed.

Over 600,000 people illegally made their way into the United States without being apprehended by border agents during the 2023 fiscal year, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed Tuesday.

Heatstroke is now the business of DHS, but border security isn’t.

Two chief patrol agents will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday to answer questions about the ongoing crisis at the southern U.S. border.

Customs and Border Protection data from last year show that the Border Patrol apprehended at least 23 people at the southern border who are on the U.S. terror watchlist. Fox News’ Bill Melugin, who obtained the CBP data through a Freedom of Information Act request, reported Monday that between Jan. 20 and Dec. 27, 2021,| USSA News