Immigration

Border Patrol lost 1,900 agents to resignations in 2025. Meanwhile, cartels are recruiting veterans at $50K sign-on bonuses. This is not a recruitment failure. It is a policy signal.

CBP encountered 178,000 illegal crossings in April 2026. That is down from the 250,000 peak but still triple pre-2021 levels. And somehow this is not the lead story on every network.

The Tenth Circuit ruled that immigration detainers are optional. The Supreme Court will likely take the case. Here is what the law actually says and why the answer will shape federalism for a generation.

Border Patrol seized 847 pounds of fentanyl in April alone. Agents in the field tell me the surge is not letting up.

Ohio volunteers are recovering Revolutionary War soldiers who died without official documentation. These men built America with their lives. The irony of calling them undocumented while Congress debates who belongs here is not lost on anyone paying attention.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 142,000 total encounters at the southwest border during April, up 12 percent from March. The surge reflects seasonal migration patterns and family unit arrivals from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

American friends ask me how I recognize the patterns so quickly. The recognition is not mysterious. The patterns repeat. The vocabulary travels.

The volume is down at the line. The intelligence is up at the desk. Anyone telling you the border is fixed has not stood inside a Forward Operating Base lately.

Trump's new DHS nominee is a career enforcement officer who spent years at the sharp end of border security operations, not in congressional offices or think tanks. That's the right call, and the critics who hate it prove why it was necessary.

Kristi Noem was ousted from the Department of Homeland Security in April 2026 as border encounters hit a 24-year monthly low. Whatever went wrong inside DHS, the people who paid for it aren't in Washington. They're in Eagle Pass.

A federal judge in Portland restricted federal agents' use of tear gas at ICE protests, substituting his own judgment for federal law enforcement policy. This is judicial overreach, a single appointee dictating tactical decisions that belong to the executive branch.

Democrats worry 'Abolish ICE' will backfire like 'Defund the Police' did, and polling confirms it. The slogan is catastrophic with Hispanic voters and independents, the exact coalition Democrats must hold to stay competitive in swing districts.

Black Democrats are invoking civil rights history to defend ICE agents wearing masks. That comparison doesn't hold. Not even close.

Texas border communities report overwhelming arrivals, exhausting law enforcement capacity and social services. Local officials plead for federal support as processing centers overflow.

The Supreme Court will weigh Trump's birthright citizenship order. The constitutional text is clear, but clarity and settled law are not always the same thing.

Republicans spent years promising border security and holding DHS funding hostage. Now Trump is reportedly backing a Senate bill that funds most of it, and the base should be asking why the leverage was never used.

The Supreme Court may settle birthright citizenship not on constitutional grounds but on a 1940 statute, and the implications cut in directions nobody's press release prepared them for.

Congressional Republicans want to revisit a 44-year-old Supreme Court ruling on public schooling for undocumented children. The press is covering it like a hate crime. It isn't.

Elite programs compete for a Final Four berth while elite bureaucrats compete to avoid doing their jobs. At least basketball has a scoreboard.

The enforcement operations got the coverage. The catch-and-release that followed didn't. Here's the part of the story nobody wanted to tell.

Asylum work permits are being handed out before claims are verified. This isn't a bureaucratic oversight, it's an engineered vulnerability.

The administration thought it had a deal to reorganize DHS. It didn't. What happened next reveals exactly how much political capital has already been spent, and on what.

Trump deployed ICE agents to airports. The left called it intimidation. The rest of us call it a functioning immigration system, and it's long overdue.

When the news industry's standard reference guide changes terminology, it doesn't just change how stories are written. It changes how reality is perceived.

The Obama-era DHS chief wants Washington to stop the funding wars. He's not wrong about the dysfunction. He's completely wrong about the cure.

The testy exchanges at Mullin's DHS confirmation hearing weren't chaos. They were a precise map of where the real battles over border security will be fought.

February encounter numbers are in. 187,000. And every major network led with a celebrity trial instead.

John Thune just stopped a vote-integrity bill dead by protecting a Senate procedure. The people who put Republicans in power are owed a real explanation.

The party that handed Republicans a decade of talking points with 'defund the police' is now nervously eyeing its own 'Abolish ICE' crowd. Turns out slogans have shelf lives.

She left DHS. South Dakota is calling. And the Senate could use someone who's actually done something.

A Democratic Senate candidate pledging to secure the border held a campaign event at a store selling 'Abolish ICE' merchandise. The contradiction isn't subtle.

House Republicans hold the majority by a thread, and some of their own are about to hand it back to Pelosi's caucus out of spite.