LATE DAY CBP Released Monthly — and Year-Ending — Immigration Numbers and Reports A Record-Number of Illegal Aliens

NOTE The CBP Numbers were release on a Saturday (21 Oct) which caused many news outlets to publish on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Here is a link to that press relese.

thecentersquare.com There were over 3.2 million people who entered the U.S. illegally nationwide in fiscal 2023, the most in recorded U.S. history, according to the latest data published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. ::: Combined with gotaway data only reported by Border Patrol agents at the southwest border, illegal border crossers totaled at least 3,970,318 in fiscal 2023. ::: A total of 3,201,144 people were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. in fiscal 2023, with the greatest number of 341,392 recorded just last month, excluding gotaways, according to official CBP data.

dailysignal.com Customs and Border Protection encountered a record number of Russian and Chinese foreign nationals along America's borders and at ports of entry in fiscal year 2023. ::: CBP encountered 57,163 foreign nationals from Russia between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023, over 20,000 more than the previous fiscal year. In the same time period, 52,700 Chinese nationals were encountered on America's borders and at ports of entry, nearly 25,000 more than during fiscal year 2022.

NOTE #OVERLOAD_Unload was published on Saturday, Sunday and Monday the 23rd. Here is a link to that last cluster.

Texas House Approves More Funding for Border Wall and Makes Illegal Entry a Crime

breitbart.com The Texas House of Representatives passed House Bill 4 early Thursday morning by a vote of 84-60. The bill creates a criminal offense of "illegal entry into or illegal presence in this state by a person who is an alien." ::: — ::: Earlier this month, the Texas Senate passed SB11, which also makes illegal entry into Texas a Class A misdemeanor. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 19-12 but was left pending in the House State Affairs committee.

thecentersquare.com After contentious debate in the House, HB 4 was passed about 4 a.m. Thursday. The bill for the first time in state history makes illegal entry into Texas a state crime and allows Texas law enforcement to implement arrest and removal procedures, including transporting illegal foreign nationals to a port of entry. ::: — ::: The House also passed an historic funding bill, HB 6, appropriating funds "for the construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure." It passed by a vote of 84-61. ::: The border barrier measure allocates an additional $1.5 billion to fund Abbott's Operation Lone Star projects. This includes continuing to build the first border wall in Texas history, as well as the first marine barriers installed in the Rio Grande River. Democrats attempted to add an amendment to the bill to prohibit funds from being allocated for additional marine buoy installation, which failed.

New York City Considers Turning Public Parks into Illegal Immigrant Tent Cities

thepostmillennial.com Mayor Eric Adams' administration had previously constructed tent-like shelters for newcomers, however under the new plan, private tents would be handed out to newcomers. ::: According to the Wall Street Journal, sources with knowledge of City Hall's inner workings revealed that Adams and his top advisers discussed the possibility of campsites springing up in parks and other public spaces across all five boroughs.

ny1.com On the heels of news that Mayor Eric Adams is looking to possibly house migrants outside, dozens of New Yorkers and advocates protested outside of his Fort Lee, New Jersey co-op that he owns with his longtime partner. ::: — ::: The city has been in courts for months, looking to suspend the longstanding consent decree that requires the city to provide a bed to anyone in need. The city argues it cannot sustain housing every new arrival under the law.

NC Senators want Answers for Fentanyl and Border Issues from Federal Agencies

thecentersquare.com Two weeks ago in North Carolina, the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office seized 5 pounds of fentanyl, or more than 1.1 million lethal doses, in the biggest bust in county history. ::: The Raleigh Police Department at the end of August tallied more than 37 pounds of fentanyl seized in 2023, enough to kill 8.5 million people, along with 48 overdose deaths and 800 overdose calls. ::: Startling statistics of the fentanyl crisis continue to spread across the state and has prompted U.S. Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis, each R-N.C., to demand answers from the Department of Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Agency about the flow of the deadly drug and others from the southern border. ::: This week, Budd and Tillis penned a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on the problem ...

In San Diego, Local Republican Lawmakers and Candidates Call for Tightening Border Over Hamas Threat

timesofsandiego.com The Gaza Strip is 7,600 miles from San Diego and surrounded by Israeli tanks and a U.S. carrier strike group, but local Republican lawmakers and candidates are calling to shut the border to asylum seekers over fears of Hamas terrorism. ::: Supervisor Jim Desmond, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, Supervisor candidate Amy Reichert and Congressional candidate Margarita Wilkinson held a press conference outside the County Operations Center Friday to call for tightening border controls.