[ A major rescue operation took place after a small boat believed to be carrying around 50 refugees ran aground on a sandbank in the English Channel off the Kent coast. Coastguard helicopter rescue teams and RNLI lifeboats were involved in the rescue mission which unfolded on Goodwin Sands off the Deal coast. The rescuers … Read more
[ Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ripped Democrats in the upper chamber for dismissing two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, claiming they tossed over two centuries of “precedent” in the Senate. “Yesterday, Chuck Schumer threw over two centuries of precedent in the United States Senate out of the window,” Cruz … Read more
[ British people with foreign partners have rushed to apply for visas so their other half can stay in the UK ahead of a looming change in the immigration rules, top lawyers have revealed. From Thursday, the minimum salary required for a UK resident to sponsor a family member’s visa jumps from £18,600 to £29,000. … Read more
[ U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said migrant smugglers are taking advantage of vulnerabilities at the southern border and the importance U.S. officials place on responding to humanitarian issues. In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Owens said smugglers “absolutely are” setting the rules of engagement at the southern … Read more
[ President Joe Biden, in his first sit down interview since his State of the Union address, addressed one moment of the speech when he was responding to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked Biden about his use of the term “illegal” when he was talking about the suspect who allegedly killed … Read more
[ The security of the UK’s borders at ports and airports is being put at risk due to a lack of radios, distractions for staff and “ineffective” use of resources, a damning inspectors’ report has revealed. The report was drawn up by David Neal, who was recently sacked by the Government as the UK’s chief … Read more
[ A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging their colleagues to back a modified version of a foreign aid and border security package it unveiled last week. In a “Dear Colleague” letter sent Sunday and obtained by The Hill, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) underscored the urgency of delivering aid to Ukraine … Read more
[ Joe Biden called out Donald Trump for working to scuttle a bill to address national security and the border, even though it was negotiated over months by both parties in the Senate. Calling the it “the strongest border bill the country has ever seen,” Biden called on GOP lawmakers “to show some spine to … Read more
[ The Home Office’s unsuccessful scramble to meet Rishi Sunak’s pledge to clear an asylum backlog is leading to a new “crisis” with a rapidly expanding mountain of appeals threatening to clog up the tribunal system, i has learnt. Specialist lawyers have said there will not be enough of them to handle the extra cases … Read more
[ Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared to dodge a question Thursday about stepping down if the House were to impeach him. The House will begin a series of impeachment hearings against Mayorkas next week. When a Fox News anchor asked Mayorkas if he would step down in the event the House impeaches him, the … Read more
