“It will be a wave not seen before,” according to retired Special Agent in-charge of Homeland Security Ari Jimenez. Title 42 is due to end in May, so what is being done along the border to prepare? And how are Republicans and Democrats using immigration to fire up their bases?  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

More than 30 sheriffs descended on the Texas Rio Grande Valley to plan and hear from them what may come when Title 42 is lifted on May 11th. See why Idaho Sheriff Kieran Donahue considers himself a border sheriff. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

Valeria Wheeler is used to having to help thousands of immigrants a week in a tiny 8,000 square foot space. Now Wheeler is preparing for the numbers Border Patrol is expecting to be as high as 5,000 to 6,000 a day when Title 42 ends in May. She tells us how she plans to take care of so many in the new shelter Mission Border Hope will open soon.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

Small Non-Profit on the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas is getting ready for what the end of the policy known as Title 42 will mean for them. Mission Border Hope in 2022 helped 144,000 asylum seekers after they were processed by Custom and Border Protection. The Executive Director Valeria Wheeler talks about the changes and what she type of help she needs.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

They went to Mexico for a friend’s cosmetic procedure and ended up losing their lives. What former Homeland Security agents say will happen after four Americans were kidnapped and two ended up losing their lives.  Will the call from legislators to declare cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations pass in Washington DC? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

It’s a 1200-acre ranch about an hour south of San Antonio. The ranch has been run by this family since 1949. But with the increase of human smugglers coming through the Texas border, this family ranch is seeing an increase in trucks crashing through their fences, letting livestock out, and leaving them with a sense of not being secure in their own property.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

41 lives have been claimed by a bus accident in Panama which carried 66 migrants on their way from Panama and Colombia to the border between Panama and Costa Rica. Among those who are officially on the list are two men from Cameroon whose families are here in the U.S. As they wait to hear if they are among the unidentified patients in a government hospital - or if they are among the dead, we hear firsthand why they left Cameroon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

We speak with ex-congressman Will Hurd about the vetting process for Russian asylum seekers arriving at the southern border. Hurd also shares why comprehensive immigration proposed laws won’t move while Democrats and Republicans continue to play political games. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more

It’s the day a Russian couple has been waiting for. The day of their asylum appointment to enter into the US through Brownsville. With their 13-year-old little Yorkie, they waited for hours on the Gateway Bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville. But the trip wasn’t as easy as it sounds. Along the way, they also found a non-profit that was charging $3,500 per person to “help” them by “using their influence” with CBP to have their paperwork done quickly. This is according to what the couple said. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com ..read more

The state of Texas will pay $224 million to a contractor who built part of the border wall which a federal report now says is failing. Why residents of El Cenizo and Rio Bravo in Webb County, Texas now say they feel disrespected by their own state. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ..read more