.
@NikkiHaley
gives a succinct description of the U.N., calling it "a place where dictators, murderers and thieves denounce America -- and then put their hands out and demand that we pay their bills."
Fiery remarks from
@tedcruz
on the Senate border deal:
"As bad as we think the bill is, I promise you, it's worse"
"[This bill] is a kamikaze plane in a box canyon with no exits headed for a train wreck"
"...represents Senate GOP leadership waging war on House GOP leadership"
“In Pennsylvania...the Republican Party has since picked up nearly 200,000 voters.
JPMorgan says the gains suggest Trump could win the state by a margin of more than 240,000 in the upcoming election.”
NEW: An Afghan refugee has been charged with the rape of a woman in Missoula, Montana, the state's governor said Thursday – and he called for the Biden administration to halt all refugee resettlements until assurances are made about the vetting process.
NEW: I just spoke with
@RepPfluger
, who is currently in Del Rio, and says that the number of migrants at the bridge is currently 14,878.
"It's worse than you can ever imagine," he says.
NEW: Montana Gov. Gianforte's office confirms that an Afghan refugee placed in Montana has been charged with sexual assault.
He calls on Biden admin to stop all resettlements until he is assured all Afghans are "fully vetted in accordance with federal law.
NEW: Border numbers are out for December, above the 250,000 mark (as Fox had previously reported.)
251,487 encounters, up from 179,253 in Dec 2021 and 73,994 in Dec 2020.
BREAKING: San Francisco
@ArchCordileone
announces that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is barred from receiving Holy Communion due to her public support of abortion.
NEW: White House confirms that it has suspended the use of horses by Border Patrol agents in Del Rio.
This is amid false claims that Border Patrol used "whips" against Haitian migrants.
NEW:
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy is requesting a meeting with
@POTUS
in the wake of "alarming" border numbers -- and warning against a Dem push to include "mass amnesty" in the budget reconciliation bill
NEW: Texas AG
@KenPaxtonTX
is suing the Biden administration over the cutting/removal of razor wire placed by Texas at the southern border -- calling on a federal court to stop what it calls an "ongoing, unlawful practice."
NEW: A coalition of GOP senators and senators-elect, led by
@tedcruz
, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results Unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.
NEW: Two Afghan refugees charged with federal crimes at Fort McCoy:
Bahrullah Noori is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force, three counts of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, with one alleging use of force.
NEW:
@HawleyMO
is demanding answers from DHS and the State Dept. about how Malik Faisal Akram was approved to enter the US, given his history of crime and extremism.
“How is anyone with this background allowed to enter our country?” Hawley asks.
BREAKING: CBP chief, on the "whipping" claims made against Border Patrol agents, says there is "no evidence Border Patrol agents involved in this incident struck anyone with their reins intentionally or otherwise."
He also confirms that the agents weren't carrying whips.
Sen.
@TedCruz
is today chairing a Senate hearing to highlight the role Antifa and others are playing in recent riots across the country -- warning that radical groups are engaging in "organized terror attacks" against government institutions.
.
@nikkihaley
fired back today against a UN resolution condemning the US embargo against Cuba:
“The United States will continue to stand with the Cuban people until their rights and their freedoms are restored. Period. We won’t back down.”
NEW: 14 Republican attorneys general, led by
@AGAshleyMoody
, are calling for DHS Secretary Mayorkas to resign over his handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern border
78% say migrants should be sent back to Mexico
67% say Biden was wrong to end the Trump-era "Remain-in-Mexico"
54% say Biden admin creating an open border
68% say stricter policies are needed at the border
73% say the surge is a crisis that needs to be dealt with immediately
.
@EliseStefanik
asks the witnesses if Hunter Biden's position on the board of Burisma has the "potential for the appearance of a conflict of interest."
"Certainly the potential, yes," Vindman says.
"Yes," says Williams.
NEW: Rep.
@Lancegooden
has introduced legislation to remove federal funding from U.S. nonprofit organizations that help facilitate illegal entry into the United States.
It's easy to be big and tough when there's 10 of you against one guy -- less so if was one-on-one. A difficult situation very well-handled by
@JackPosobiec
From the
@nypost
: A 24-year-old Honduran national was released into the US after claiming to border authorities he was an unaccompanied minor.
He's now been charged with the brutal stabbing death of a Florida father-of-four who had taken him in.
NEW:
@GovRonDeSantis
says that Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel with 25 illegal aliens from Haiti. The boat was also carrying drugs, firearms and night vision gear.
.
@CBPMarkMorgan
on those referring to law enforcement as 'masked stormtroopers': "It is offensive, offensive to refer to these dedicated men and women that are out there are law enforcement professionals to make that reference."
"It’s disgusting and its also a lie."
NEW: Arizona AG
@GeneralBrnovich
is calling on the DOJ to investigate Facebook after the tech giant told his office that it allows users "to share information about how to enter a country illegally or request information about how to be smuggled."
NEW:
@ICEgov
is accusing New York of putting lives at risk by shutting federal immigration authorities out of state DMV data -- and highlighting that the state is still granting access to that same data to Canadian law enforcement.
NEW:
@KenPaxtonTX
to Fox on SCOTUS razor wire ruling
“The Supreme Court’s temporary order allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America. The destruction of Texas’s border barriers will not help enforce the law or keep American citizens safe.…
NEW: A group of 12 House Republicans, led by
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
, is pushing the Department of Justice for details about the ousting of an unknown number of Trump-era immigration judges
NEW: Republican and Democratic senators are urging the Trump administration not to increase the number of H-2B visas this year without significant reforms to the controversial program — amid fears it harms American workers
Antifa black bloc tear off the plywood protective barrier to the Portland federal courthouse. They’re trying to break the glass underneath to set the interior on fire.
#PortlandRiots
NEW: In the middle of our live shot on
@FoxNews
, another group of dozens of single adult male migrants were dropped off by the federal government in Brownsville. A NGO then gave them travel folders and they walked to a nearby bus stop to travel elsewhere in the country.
@FoxNews
Robinson has been in prison for two months on a contempt of court charge and emerges looking gaunt and disorientated. Likely to raise questions about how he was treated in prison.
NEW:
@JudiciaryGOP
on Wednesday invited Chairman Jerry Nadler and other committee Democrats to join them on an upcoming trip to the border to observe what they called "Biden's border crisis."
NEW w/
@BillFOXLA
and
@peterjhasson
: Border Patrol agents are furious after it has emerged that DHS is set to discipline multiple agents who were falsely accused of whipping Haitian migrants in Del Rio last year.
NEW w
@BillMelugin_
: The Venezuelan illegal immigrant who went viral on TikTok urging migrants to squat in people’s houses has been arrested by ICE in Ohio.
NEW: Every House Republican from Calif, Ariz, N.M. and Texas has signed onto a letter urging Democratic leadership to scrap controversial immigration provisions in the reconciliation bill -- warning that they will exacerbate the crisis at the border
NEW:
@KenPaxtonTX
is suing the Biden admin over its use of the CBP One app to schedule migrant appointments at the border.
He accuses DHS of "illegally pre-approving more foreign aliens to enter the country and go where they please once they arrive."
Twitter has put a warning label on a
@NikkiHaley
tweet about election fraud.
Haley responded by noting that a tweet by Iran’s
@khamenei_ir
on Holocaust “doubts” did not get disputed.
STORY:
@DHS_Wolf
today pushed back against criticism over the agency’s response to rioting in Portland -- promising that federal law enforcement “will not retreat” from the city and telling rioters to “find another line of work.”
NEW: An ICE source confirms to Fox that the Columbus man charged in the rape of a 10-year-old in Ohio is a Guatemalan illegal immigrant and ICE has placed a detainer on him.
.
@nikkihaley
speaking to the General Assembly on Hamas resolution:
“The question before us now is whether the UN thinks terrorism is acceptable if, and only if, it is directed against Israel.”
NEW:
@JudiciaryGOP
are demanding that the Biden administration preserve documents related to the ongoing crisis at the southern border -- as Republicans lay the groundwork for investigations and hearings in the next Congress.
NEW: Rep.
@Jim_Jordan
and Sen.
@ChuckGrassley
are pushing the DOJ for answers about the ousting of a number of Trump-era immigration judges -- firings they say could be illegal.
NEW w/
@BillFOXLA
: ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations have been turned into an "unofficial travel coordination agency," and agents are made to facilitate travel for illegal immigrants with criminal records, an ICE source tells Fox News.
NEW: Sen.
@MarshaBlackburn
toured the southern border on Friday and, with gunfire ringing out behind her from Mexico, told me that the current crisis “cannot continue.”
NEW: Sources tell me and
@BillFOXLA
that there were approximately 8,000 migrant encounters at the southern border yesterday.
Officials have recently been averaging about 7,000 encounters a day.
NEW: A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Biden administration’s use of parole to release migrants into the U.S. interior, finding the practice unlawful and accusing the administration of turning the border into a "meaningless line in the sand."
NEW:
@RepMattGaetz
is introducing a resolution in the House that calls on the Biden administration to end U.S. military and financial aid to Ukraine -- while also urging all involved to secure a peace agreement
Bill Melugin's team has been transmitting the astonishing images coming from the Del Rio bridge to Fox viewers and readers across the country.
The FAA just put in restrictions over the bridge.
NEW: We’ve learned that the FAA just implemented a two week TFR (Temporary Flight Restrictions) over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, meaning we can no longer fly our FOX drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants. FAA says “special security reason”.
This is absolutely staggering. The Doc is one of the top streamers on Twitch. Yesterday he was banned for a “terms of service violation.”
More than 24 hours later he says he has not been told why.
#DrDisRespect
Champions Club,
Twitch has not notified me on the specific reason behind their decision... Firm handshakes to all for the support during this difficult time.
-Dr Disrespect
BREAKING: In a federal court filing obtained by
@FoxNews
, DHS reports 153,941 migrant encounters in January, almost doubling Jan. ‘21 (78,414) and more than quadruple Jan. ‘20 (36,585).
DHS also reports 62,573 migrants were released into U.S. just last month alone.
@FoxNews
NEW w/
@BillFOXLA
and
@GriffJenkins
: Officials at the southern border are seeing massive migrant numbers along the southern border, ahead of the expected end of Title 42 on Dec 21
NEW:
@Jim_Jordan
and
@ChuckGrassley
are seeking more information from the Biden administration on a recently announced Venezuelan parole program – a program they call a "flagrant violation" of federal law.
NEW w/
@BillMelugin_
@GriffJenkins
: A Haitian migrant now charged with rape of a 15-year-old girl in a Mass. hotel entered the U.S. via a controversial parole program that allows up to 30k migrants a month to fly into the country, sources tell Fox News.
NEW: DHS did not properly vet and screen all Afghan evacuees and may have paroled national security and public safety risks into the US, according to a new DHS IG report
.
@tedcruz
on the Senate floor: "Over recent years more and more Chief Justice Roberts has been playing games with the court to achieve the policy outcomes he desires."
NEW w/
@BillFOXLA
: DHS Sec. Mayorkas was told that there was no whipping of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol agents -- hours before he attended a WH press conference where he failed to challenge the debunked narrative.
Reps
@Jim_Jordan
and
@RepMcClintock
write to DHS/HHS seeking information about an MS-13 gang member who was arrested for the murder of a Md woman after reportedly being released into the US as an unaccompanied minor.
NEW: The Texas Military Department confirms the TX National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass (city property where mass illegal crossings are), and is restricting Border Patrol from accessing the area, saying the Feds “perpetuate illegal crossings”. This is…
NEW: State AGs from Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma will testify at Wednesday’s Mayorkas impeachment hearing — testifying about the impacts the migrant crisis has had on their states.
NEW: Border Patrol agents who spoke to me and
@peterjhasson
were furious about the administration's response to the images of agents on horseback.
One agent said that the outrage "just proves what absolute idiots they are."
NEW: 20 states led by Texas and
@America1stLegal
, are suing the Biden administration over its recently-expanded humanitarian parole program for Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.
HAPPENING NOW: Migrants, flown into Martha’s Vineyard by Fl’s governor, are boarding buses. They’ll be heading to Joint Base Cape Cod, according to officials. 125 Mass National Guard members are being activated to assist.
@NBCNews
NEW:
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
has introduced articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing him of having presided over a "reckless abandonment" of border security
All Americans should be taken out of Afghanistan FIRST!
All Afghan refugees should be held elsewhere and vetted right now, NOT given direct entry into the U.S.
And we should re-instate the Remain In Mexico policy to do the same at the southern border.
Prioritize
#AmericaFirst
.
@TedCruz
on the situation in Donna facilities:
"This is inhumane, it is wrong and it is the direct consequence of policy decisions by the Biden administration to stop building the wall, to return to catch-and-release and to end the stay-in-Mexico policy"
NEW:
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy tells Fox News Digital that President Biden should apologize to the Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, after CBP found there was no evidence they whipped Haitian migrants.
NEW: ICE says it has arrested more than two dozen illegal immigrant sex offenders in a two-day operation in Los Angeles.
Those arrested include those convicted of child sex crimes.
NEW: ICE says a Venezuelan illegal alien "failed to disclose" a homicide conviction to Border Patrol in July and was released into the US w/notice to appear at an ICE office.
He was arrested while living in state-provided housing on Joint Base Cape Cod.
NEW: Multiple Texas counties on Tuesday will declare that the migrant crisis at the southern border is an "invasion" -- a move that is expected to lead to similar declarations elsewhere across the state.
NEW: ICE confirms that the Georgia student murder suspect entered illegally in 2022 and was paroled into the US.
Also confirmed he was arrested in NYC in Sept and released before a detainer could be issued.
NEW w/
@PeteKDCNews
: As House Republicans zeroing in on the border crisis,
@chiproytx
introduces legislation that would block illegal aliens from entering the U.S. until there is operational control of the border.
BREAKING:
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy is calling for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign over his handling of the migrant crisis at the southern border – or potentially face an impeachment inquiry when Republicans take the House.
NEW: More than 100 House and Senate Republicans, led by
@RepStefanik
and
@SenRickScott
, are requesting the DHS OIG launch a 'comprehensive review' of the Biden administration's decisions on the southern border
Photographer who took the photos of Border Patrol on horseback:
“I’ve never seen them whip anyone...He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”
NEW: A federal judge has just imposed a preliminary injunction on the Biden administration's narrowed ICE enforcement rules -- in response to a lawsuit by Louisiana and Texas
NEW w/
@BillFOXLA
: Border Patrol agents stopped a dozen individuals whose names are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database in August, bringing the total for the fiscal year to 78 -- triple the previous five fiscal years combined
NEW: Legislation being introduced by
@DanCrenshawTX
would significantly ramp up federal penalties for those involved in Mexican cartels — including specifically targeting their enormous financial power.