Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Bidens Open Border Policies
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the states National Guard and State Troopers to respond to the growing border crisis.
Governor Abbott announced Operation Lone Star to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas on Saturday. The operation will integrate the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with the National Guard, Abbott said. He is ordering the deployment of air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas.
The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration, the governor said in a written statement Saturday evening. Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives
India Detains Scores Of Rohingya Ahead Of Expected Deportation To Myanmar By AFP News
on March 08 2021 2:56 AM
Scores of Rohingya who fled persecution in Myanmar are being held in a detention centre in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said Sunday, after being rounded up ahead of their expected deportation to the protest-wracked nation.
At least 168 people from the Muslim minority from Buddhist-dominated Myanmar have been picked up by authorities in the northern territory since Saturday, Jammu s Inspector General of Police, Mukesh Singh, said. After nationality verification of these illegal immigrants, details will be sent to the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi to be taken up with Myanmar for their deportation, Singh told AFP.
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Immigration Department has deported a total of 316 undocumented migrants back to the Philippines on March 6, after months of border lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
With some immigration rules being eased and negotiations with the Philippines consul-general, the migrants were finally allowed to return to their country via sea routes from the Sandakan jetty at about 7pm.
They were taken from Tawau to Sandakan by road, before being sent home via sea routes to Zamboanga, southern Philippines.
State Immigration director Datuk Mohamad Sade Mohamad Amin said this is the first deportation for 2021.
“The migrants are those who have been detained at the Tawau detention centre since last year, ” he said in a statement here, late Saturday (March 6).
Kevin McCarthy Asks Biden for Immigration Meeting as Administration Officials Secretl
Kevin McCarthy Asks Biden for Immigration Meeting as Administration Officials Secretly Travel to Southern Border
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Friday requested a meeting with President Biden to talk about the surge in migrants at the southern border.
The request comes as Biden sis ecretly sending members of his team to travel to the border region in order to provide a full briefing to him on the government response to the influx of unaccompanied minors and an assessment of additional steps that can be taken to ensure the safety and care of these children, White House spokesperson Vedant Patel said.