Record 269,735 Illegal Crossings in September

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported an all-time, one-month record of 269,735 for September, bringing the record total for 2023 up to 2.47 million and forcing “CBP surged resources and personnel.”

The chaotic, convoluted path House Republicans took to elect a speaker leads back to square one

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but in their effort to elect a House speaker, Republicans have taken a more tortured route. Compared to a straight line, Republicans will follow the path of the “truncated icosidodecahedron rhombus,” a monstrous, convex, polygonous shape. At least the truncated icosidodecahedron rhombus is an actual thing. […]

Border Patrol stop record number of people on terror watchlist at southern border

Border officials arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watchlist in September, making fiscal year 2023 a record year for such encounters at the southern border. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics released Saturday, 169 people on the FBI terror watchlists were encountered between ports of entry at the southern border in the […]