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Chris Magnus testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on his nomination to be the next U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Oct. 19, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP, File)

Feds blast Texas for shipping illegal immigrants to D.C.

A senior Homeland Security official chided Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for busing illegal immigrants to Washington, saying Thursday that the Republican governor was hurting the government's efforts to coordinate how the migrants are released.

April 14, 2022
A line of Texas Department of Safety vehicles line up on the Texas side of the Rio Grande with Mexico visible, right, near an encampment of migrants, many from Haiti, on Sept. 22, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Texas strikes deal with Mexican state to police border

A Mexican governor promised Wednesday to deploy his own police to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he'll cancel some of the enhanced commercial traffic inspections that had clogged the ports of entry into the state.

April 13, 2022
Texas Governor Greg Abbott answers questions during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.C. The move announced Wednesday amounts to a taunt at President Joe Biden and Congress over what the Republican governor calls a failure by the federal government to stop the flow of migrants coming to the southern border. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Texas will try to ship illegal immigrants to D.C., governor says

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that illegal immigrants caught and released by federal agents into his state will be quickly shipped straight to Washington, seeking to bring the pain of border communities straight to the doorstep of the Biden administration.

April 6, 2022
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., speaks at a news conference held by members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Congressman pushes DHS to shoot down cartel drones at border

Rep. Dan Bishop was incredulous when Homeland Security officials told a House committee last week that they see about 200 suspicious drone flights a day at the southern border -- and that's just what they are able to detect.

April 5, 2022
In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are being arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: ICE to scour U.S. communities looking for border absconders

The Department of Homeland Security will deploy teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers into communities to track down illegal immigrants the Biden administration caught and released at the border last year and who have since gone AWOL, The Washington Times has learned.

April 5, 2022
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with a Member of Congress while en route to a health care event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., March 19, 2010 in this file photo. The White House comments line was reported as disconnected on Jan. 14, with just five and a half days left in the Obama presidency. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) **FILE** This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

‘Obamaphone’ company pays $13.4 million to settle fraud claims

A company that the government paid to distribute "Obamaphones" -- the nickname critics gave to government phones given to poor people -- has agreed to pay $13.4 million to settle a case alleging that it doled out devices to tens of thousands of people who didn't deserve them.

April 4, 2022