The Title 42 order that former President Trump imposed early during the COVID-19 pandemic blocked migrants from seeking asylum and allowed the U.S. to expel migrants from the border. President Biden’s effort to lift the order was temporarily halted by the U.S. Supreme Court last month, maintaining border patrol agents’ authority to expel. Straight Arrow…

Title 42 gets another temporary lifeline; Southwest airlines is still struggling; and more snow hits Buffalo. These stories and more highlight the morning rundown for Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022.  Supreme Court keeps Title 42 for now Title 42 was supposed to expire one week ago today before the Supreme Court intervened. Now in a 5-4…

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, R, has agreed to stop installing shipping containers along his state’s border with Mexico. According to a court filing, Arizona also agreed to remove those that have already been put in place to avoid a restraining order or preliminary injunction. The containers were added to fill gaps in the border wall.…

The Border Patrol shut down a highway checkpoint in the El Paso sector as the number of illegal crossings in the area skyrockets. Photos sent to Straight Arrow News by a source in El Paso show a checkpoint in New Mexico blocked off and unstaffed. The Border Patrol El Paso sector denied the shutdown was…

Congress avoids a government shutdown; the military vaccine mandate gets dropped as defense bill passes; a massive winter storm surges on; and nearly half of young adults are living with their parents. These stories and more highlight the morning rundown for Thursday, Dec. 16, 2022.  Congress averts government shutdown The Senate and the House have…

U.S. Border Patrol had over 16,000 migrant encounters over the weekend, according to Chief Raul Ortiz. That includes a surge in El Paso, Texas, where the Border Patrol has averaged 2,460 daily immigrant encounters over the last three days according to the sector’s acting Chief Patrol Agent Peter Jaquez. On Sunday night alone, more than…

The Justice Department unsealed 11 indictments against 12 people in what is described as a multi-faceted conspiracy to monopolize the transmigrante industry. The accused are facing price fixing and monopoly violations under the Sherman Act and some are facing money laundering charges. The transmigrante industry in southern Texas is made up of a group of…

There’s been a lot of press recently about “rainbow” fentanyl – pills in a variety of bright colors that the Drug Enforcement Agency claims is designed to look like candy. But many experts say that’s a myth. They don’t believe Mexican drug cartels and street dealers have launched a marketing campaign to entice kids to try…

Immigration along the southern border surged to record levels in the 2022 fiscal year. The Border Patrol encountered more than 2.3 million immigrants, but another record went largely unnoticed. Agents performed more than 22,000 searches and rescues, nearly double 2021 levels and more than four times the number in 2020. As immigrants try to cross…

New numbers from Customs and Border Protection reveal October marked the eighth month in a row with more than 200,000 migrant encounters at America’s southern border. But as the focus remains on the immigrants, agents, and politicians, Straight Arrow News wanted to know how this influx impacts local residents. Many are eager to talk about…