Tesla moves head office to Texas as Elon Musk dissatisfied with California
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday, Oct. 7, that the company would relocate its headquarters from California to Texas, following the similar moves by Oracle and Hewlett Packard. At the company’s shareholder meeting, Musk said Tesla is moving the head office from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas, CNBC reported. Despite the ...
Border crisis-linked ‘fentanyl ingress’ kills young Americans say GOP governors
Nine Republican governors visited the Rio Grande Vally border with Mexico on Oct. 6. They warned the border crisis is also a "drug crisis," referring to the explosion of fentanyl and methamphetamine across the Southern border. The group met with Col. Steve McCraw, who provided a disturbing update. The Texas Department ...
Texas appeals court order blocking ‘Heartbeat’ anti-abortion law
Texas's attorney general office vowed to appeal a court order that blocks the state's "Heartbeat" law on Oct. 6. Federal Judge Robert Pitman temporarily blocked legislation that bans abortion after a fetus heartbeat is detected–roughly six weeks into pregnancy. This came despite the rule saving more than 3,000 unborn babies since ...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas abortion law
In a challenge initiated by the Biden administration, a federal court selected by former President Barack Obama stopped Texas' new pro-life statute by imposing a preliminary injunction Wednesday evening, Oct. 6. Judge Robert Pitman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas has temporarily barred the State of Texas, ...
10 Governors urge Biden to end border crisis, propose 10-point plan
Republican governors on Wednesday, Oct. 6, issued a 10-point proposal to end the border crisis, calling on the Biden administration to address the ongoing influx of migrants and change policies that they allege are fuelling those high numbers. "President Joe Biden has caused a humanitarian crisis and chaos on our border," ...
400,000 illegal immigrants could enter the US: Title 42 is only a stop-gap measure while legislation proceeds
The border crisis in the United States is about to double the record of the last 21 years because the suspension of Title 42 could stimulate the entry of close to 400,000 illegal immigrants. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, posed a question to his agency ...
Legal battle: Appeal court allows Title 42 continuation
U.S. appeals court on Thursday, Sept. 30 allowed the Biden administration to keep expelling illegal migrants due to COVID-19 risks. The border policy, known as Title 42, materialized under the Trump administration when the COVID-19 pandemic started to reveal its devastating power in March 2020. Under the policy, officials can directly return ...
Thousands more migrants are heading to US, Panama government says
Panama Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, on Wednesday, Sept. 29, said the influx of illegal migrants at the U.S. border has far from ended. While the U.S. was feeling some relief from dealing with about 30,000 illegal migrants of mostly Haitian nationals appearing on the U.S. border in recent weeks, Mouynes broke ...
Rio Grande Valley: Deported killer captured by border patrol
Border Patrol officials in Texas have caught a convicted murderer who had tried to illegally enter the U.S. after being deported for his crime, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release. The man, an identified Honduran national, was convicted of homicide in Miami, Florida, and sentenced ...
Border Patrol sets a new record for migrant arrests
Since the agency's founding in 1924, the Border Patrol has eclipsed the total number of migrant apprehensions made in any year along the southwest border. According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, the unofficial apprehension record for the year as of Wednesday indicates more than 1,646,000, reported Breitbart. The figure includes arrests ...
Child dies from brain-eating amoeba after visiting Texas splash pad
Officials reported Monday Sept. 27 that a Texas child died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba detected in a Texas splash where the boy had visited, and that an investigation revealed gaps in water-quality testing at several parks.According to Tarrant County Public Health officials, on Sept. 5 a child had ...
Border landowner shares his excruciating account of illegal immigrants
Page Day is a professional outfitter who makes a fortune by hosting hunters on guided deer and exotic animal adventures on his family's 20,000 acres of land in south-central Texas, just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. However, Day has recently begun to lose part of his business due to hunters' fear ...
Horse mounted border agents might not be punished for Haitian migrant photos
Authorities do not expect to discipline Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees for allegedly mistreating illegal aliens at the U.S.-Mexico perimeter on Sept. 27. Internal officials doubt any CBP agent on horseback will face serious repercussions for allegedly hitting migrants at Del Rio, 240 miles southwest of Austin. BL understands they ...
Biden should ‘apologize to the American people,’ over agents horseback incident, says Tulsi Gabbard
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said the president was wrong to condemn border agents accused of whipping Haitian immigrants—which was eventually confirmed not to be the case—and that he should apologize to the American people, The Blaze reported. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Sept. 26, Gabbard, former representative for the ...
Haitian migrants travelling through Panama jungles to US border, add to President Biden’s headaches
As the Biden administration is expelling Haitian illegal immigrants back to their chaotic country, thousands of others are making their way to the U.S. border through treacherous jungles. Newsmax citing Panamanian government sources, reported that up to 4,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, have passed through the jungles of the Darien ...
12,400 migrants begin US immigration process, wait for permission to stay
Thousands of migrants who overwhelmed a southwestern Texas border town could stay in America, the White House said on Sept. 24. The Biden administration confirmed no Haitian migrants are at a border camp in Del Rio, Texas. "We have no migrants remaining in the camp under the International Bridge," Homeland Security Secretary ...
Photographer says Border Patrol agents on horses did not whip anyone
In an exclusive interview with KTSM, photographer Paul Ratje said he never observed any whipping incident, and neither did his colleagues. “I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.” In the photos and some footage, the agents ...
Protesters yell at Al Sharpton during his Texas border trip: ‘Why are you here advocating for violence?’
Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights advocate, faced protests during his trip to the Haitian migrant encampment on the U.S. southern border in Del Rio, Texas. After touring the area with Democratic Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano, Sharpton held a press conference where he was trying to criticize the Border Patrol's ...
Texas announces a full 2020 forensic election audit in four counties
On Thursday, Sept. 23, the Texas Secretary of State confirmed that a forensic audit of the 2020 election had begun in four Counties."Under existing Texas laws, the Secretary of State has the authority to conduct a full and comprehensive forensic audit of any election and has already begun the process ...
Biden’s special envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ deportations
President Biden's Special Envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, resigned Thursday, Sept. 23 amid a rise in Haitian migrants crossing the southern border, blasting the Biden administration's decision as "inhumane" and "counterproductive."In his resignation letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, first reported by PBS, Foote said he was retiring ...
