Political kingmaker Jeffrey Katzenberg said he thinks the 2024 presidential election will see President Joe Biden facing off, once again, with Donald Trump.
14.10.2022 - 00:41 / foxnews.com
The latest revelations about the year-long controversy over false claims that Border Patrol agents "whipped" or "strapped" Haitian migrants are likely to exacerbate already sour relations between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and agents. Fox News reported Tuesday how Mayorkas was told hours before a White House press conference in September 2021 that the photographer who captured a clash between Border Patrol agents and Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, days earlier had said that the incident was being misconstrued.
A narrative had emerged that agents on horseback had whipped migrants and was being perpetuated by top Democrats and the White House. But the photographer had told outlets he had not seen any whipping.
Instead, agents were using their long reins to control their horses. A subsequent investigation would fault agents on a number of issues, including incorrect radio use and maneuvering a horse close to a child, but found that agents do not carry whips nor did they strike migrants with their reins.
However, despite the narrative being debunked almost immediately, President Biden on Sept. 24 fueled the "whipping" narrative, saying that agents had "strapped" migrants and promised that "those people would pay." Hours later at a separate press conference, Mayorkas failed to challenge that narrative that migrants had been whipped, despite having been told hours earlier in an email by a top DHS official that a news article showed the photographer who took the images did not see any whipping.
Political kingmaker Jeffrey Katzenberg said he thinks the 2024 presidential election will see President Joe Biden facing off, once again, with Donald Trump.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw and Texas GOP congressional candidates Cassy Garcia and Monica De La Cruz said on "Fox & Friends" they believe longtime Democratic seats in South Texas are about to flip red.
Members of two rival Mexican drug cartels opened fire on each other just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, using .50 cal machine guns mounted on trucks to claim dominance over a popular smuggling route. The footage, provided to Fox by the Texas Department of Public Safety, shows at least four vehicles engaged in a gunfight on a road near Ciudad Miguel Aleman, a Mexican border city directly across the border from Roma, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. DPS identified the rival groups as the Gulf Cartel and the Northeast Cartel, adding that at least one cartel had a thermal imaging drone monitoring the carnage from above.
MCALLEN, TX – Twelve minutes into a "ride-along" with the Texas Department of Public Safety on an early morning shift, a group of migrants was seen hiding in the brush, after swimming across the Rio Grande. Lieutenant Chris Olivarez with Texas DPS said the migrants making this journey are putting their lives at risk. "The number of deaths that have taken place because of this crisis and the amount of immigrants that have lost their lives, is a record number that we have never seen before" Lt. Olivarez said. Less than 10 minutes later, a second group was seen on camera and later caught.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection office at the Pharr International Bridges Cargo Facility in Texas has intercepted over a million dollars in alleged fentanyl. On Thursday, officers assigned to the cargo facility encountered a commercial tractor-trailer arriving from Mexico. An officer referred the vehicle for further inspection. After utilizing non-intrusive inspection equipment and screening by a canine team, CBP found 19 packages of alleged fentanyl that had been concealed in the tractor. PHARR, TX - APRIL 13: Police officers block the entrance to the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on April 13, 2022, in Pharr, Texas.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas waved away criticism from lawmakers calling for his impeachment on Friday, saying that his critics' rhetoric about the border being "open" was inspiring further illegal immigration. A group of Republican lawmakers — led by Sen.Ted Cruz of Texas — demanded Mayorkas resign after Fox News reported he was alerted to an article stating that no Haitian migrants were "whipped" by Border Patrol agents on Sept.
Border patrol officers in Texas recently encountered Halloween decorations in a disguise of their own during an inspection at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry. While conducting a second inspection of a car coming from Mexico, field officers discovered $402,196 in liquid methamphetamine inside pumpkins, U.S. Customs and Border Protections said in a news release.
A large group of Venezuelans expelled from the United States and sent to Mexico under a new Homeland Security policy protested at the border Friday, causing officials to briefly close an international bridge leading to Texas. The protesters gathered in Matamoros, Mexico, which sits across from Brownsville, Texas. Video footage posted on social media shows a group of people gathered on the bridge appearing to talk among themselves. A spokesperson for U.S.
House Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign amid new revelations in the agency’s "whipping" scandal. Stefanik hopped on a video interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, where she made the call for Mayorkas to step down as DHS secretary when asked whether he should resign amid the new information on the Border Patrol "whipping" allegations.
ROMA, Texas – A rancher at the southern border, struggling to secure his property against migrants using it to sneak into the U.S., criticized President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for failing to curb the ongoing crisis. Migrants cutting through Richard Guerra's game fences have also led to costly repairs. But the rancher said the damages have recently decreased since migrants view the border as open, encouraging them to cross more openly at Eagle Pass.
Many on the left are up in arms after the governors of Texas, Arizona and Florida began sending illegal aliens to sanctuary cities.The big city mayors of Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago complained when buses of several thousand illegal aliens arrived over a period of a few months, an amount equal to what small border towns are forced to contend with on a daily basis. But when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flew 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard, it sent them over the edge.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other legal groups filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday, alleging that migrants detained in four detention facilities in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona have been denied legal representation. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that attorneys face "numerous obstacles" in attempting to communicate with detained migrants.These obstacles, the lawsuit says, make representation "extremely difficult and, sometimes, impossible." FILE: A Border Patrol agent walks between a gap along the border wall between the US and Mexico in Yuma, Arizona on June 1, 2022. (Patrick T.
A group of roughly 30 Venezuelan migrants were surprised to learn that they will be returned to Mexico under a new Department of Homeland Security policy announced on Wednesday. Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins approached the migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas, shortly after they were apprehended on Thursday. "Did you know Venezuelans will be returned to Mexico now?" Jenkins asked the group. "We did not know anything," one migrant said. A group of Venezuelan migrants were surprised to learn from a Fox News correspondent that they would be returned to Mexico under a new Biden administration policy announced this week. (Fox News) "Please receive us, have benevolence with Venezuela, because we are in need," another migrant told Jenkins. Other migrants said they "have nowhere to go to in Mexico" and that the country "is dangerous." The Biden administration announced a new border enforcement operation with Mexico that includes a parole program to provide a legal pathway for Venezuelans. A Venezuelan migrant couple seeking asylum kiss after crossing the Rio Bravo to turn themselves in to U.S. Customs and Border Protecction agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas.
Immigration activist groups are expressing their concern with the Biden administration’s announcement that it will start expelling Venezuelans to Mexico using the Title 42 public health order -- reducing entry pathways to a limited parole program. The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it is launching a new large-scale border enforcement operation with Mexico that includes increased checkpoints, a surge in resources and a crackdown on human smuggling. The administration also announced that all Venezuelans entering the U.S.
Left-leaning outlets have ignored the latest development in the debunked story about Border Patrol agents supposedly whipping Haitian migrants, despite previously parroting the claim. According to a Sept 24, 2021 email obtained by the Heritage Foundation, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was told that the photographer who captured a clash between Border Patrol agents and Haitian migrants in Del Rio had said that the incident was being misconstrued. But hours before, Mayorkas attended a White House press conference where he failed to challenge the false narrative, pushed by other members of the Biden administration, including the president himself.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas needs to resign. No, it is not because of the record level of border crossing with millions pouring into the country. It is not the obvious lack of confidence of the rank and file officers in Mayorkas.
One Texas rancher called out the Biden administration for changing border policies ahead of the midterm election, after extending an invitation to the president to witness the crisis. Laura Allen, who has a ranch in Val Verde County, joined "Fox & Friends First" Thursday to discuss the invitation and her reaction to the White House sending Venezuelan migrants who entered the U.S.
Border officers in Texas found more than $402,000 worth of liquid methamphetamine held in condoms that were hidden inside pumpkins during a vehicle inspection, authorities said. The seizure was discovered Tuesday at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry and was among Halloween decorations inside a vehicle, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. Border officers in Texas said they seized discovered 44 pounds of liquid methamphetamine in condoms hidden inside pumpkins.
Fox News host Jesse Watters ripped DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on "The Five" Wednesday after Fox News reported he was alerted to an article stating that no Haitian migrants were "whipped" by Border Patrol agents on Sept. 19, 2021. Mayorkas, Watters argued, made President Biden look "foolish" and let innocent Border Patrol agents get smeared.
Republican legislators are slamming Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after Fox News reported he was alerted to an article stating that no Haitian migrants were "whipped" by Border Patrol agents on Sept. 19, 2021. The email, which was sent on Sept.