Border Patrol agent Javier Vega, Jr., R.I.P. - UPDATE - Info on how to help his family below Murder in Rio Grande Valley: "This is coming to a town near you" by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2014 The voice on the other end of the line is exasperated. “It’s insane,” he wants America to... Read More

Screenshot via the LA Times website: Jonathan DelCarmen is 19. He came to this country illegally seven years ago, when he was 12. He fits the profile of the prototypical "DREAM" youth whom President Obama has granted administrative amnesty to (and wants to expand massively) -- and whom open-borders advocates in both parties believe should... Read More

Jose Antonio Vargas: The face of the entitled illegal alien by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2014 They've blown it again, big time. They just can't help themselves. During the Bush years, the open-borders movement won over bleeding hearts in the White House but alienated the American public with radical displays of La Raza ("The... Read More

Longtime readers know I've dedicated much of my work over the last two decades to our broken borders and reckless bipartisan sabotage of immigration enforcement. Decades before Fast and Furious, there were dozens of law enforcement and federal officers who sacrificed their lives in defense of our sovereignty. Just like Border Patrol agent Brian Terry,... Read More

Scroll for updates...Conflicting reports on Giffords' status in post-shooting chaos...latest as of 2:39pm, Giffords still alive and in surgery...continued prayers...4:216pm Easter...shooter ID's as Jared Loughner... Terrible, terrible news today out of Tucson, where a gunman shot and killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) and at least 6 others. Several more were injured in the ambush. Reuters... Read More

Scroll down for updates...Poll added below: What do you think really happened?...Hmmm: Suspects reportedly identified?...Hartley unsure if Mexican persons of interest identified by government are the attackers... Longtime readers know that southern border violence has been one of my primary topics for as long as I've been working in daily journalism and writing books. You... Read More

Arizona ranchers continue to raise their voices about chaos on the southern border in the wake of Robert Krentz's murder in the Douglas-area: Given Mr. Krentz’s radio transmission, the footprints and heavy drug and illegal immigrant trafficking in that area, investigators are working on the assumption that he encountered a smuggler, possibly heading back to... Read More

I will continue to keep you updated on the investigation into Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's brutal murder. The latest: *Funeral services have been set for April 9-10 in Douglas. *Police are working on theories about the shooter possibly belonging to "a drug cartel scout or a band of thieves terrorizing Arizona ranches." *Open-borders Sen. Johnny... Read More

Scroll for updates, reax...new details from the crime scene... Rob Krentz was a Cochise County, AZ cattle farmer who had battled the bloody consequences of illegal immigration for years. Over the weekend, his dead body was found on his ranch. The longtime rancher had been gunned down. Police are investigating the homicide. The Arizona Star... Read More

My column this morning looks at the continuing chaos on our southern border. Displaying her fabulous sense of timing, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano chose to announce amid all the bloodshed that she's scrapping the doomed Fence to Nowhere project. The system is not working. *** The slaughter on the southern border by Michelle Malkin Creators... Read More

Last week, I noted the murder of Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas. He left behind a wife and two children. His community in Arizona has set up several memorial funds. Keep the family in your thoughts and prayers. And help honor Rosas' service by helping his family and keeping his legacy alive.

Scroll down for udpates... Border Agent Robert Rosas, Jr., killed in the line of duty In my State of the Borders column in January, I warned that Mexican Army incursions into U.S. territory remain a regular occurrence. Off the Obama radar screen, violence on the southern border rages unchecked. Now this: A

Well, it didn't take long for partisan Democrats to blame the swine flu outbreak on the Republican Party. Here's the line: Since House Republicans all opposed the trillion-dollar-porkulus, which included funding for pandemic preparations, it's all. Our. Fault. No, really: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment... Read More

There's been a bit of a stir over President Obama's comments suggesting that he is open to the idea of sending National Guard troops down to the southern border to deal with long-festering chaos. (link) Yadda yadda yadda. I call bull. No meaningful security force will be mobilized along our border. It will never happen... Read More

Hey, how's that $1.6 billion American-taxpayer-funded Merida Initiative to control crime and chaos in Mexico working out? Not so well. Not so well. A bad situation keeps getting worse: U.S. anti-kidnap expert kidnapped in Mexico Mexican gunmen have kidnapped a U.S. security consultant who negotiated the release of dozens of kidnap victims in Latin America.... Read More

In case you hadn't noticed, Mexico is in chaos. Beheaded and bullet-ridden bodies are turning up left and right along the southern border. Drug traffickers are running rampant in Sinaloa. Corruptocrats are letting gangs take over their cities. In Tijuana, 200 people were killed in a month. The CSM reports: "Last weekend turned into one... Read More

See, I told you so... September 14, 2006: April 4, 2007: FINO: Fence In Name Only July 14, 2007: Border fence? What border fence? December 18, 2007: House guts border fence Feb. 28, 2008: The Fence to Nowhere March 5, 2008: The Finish The Freaking Fence Act March 26, 2008: The border fence sunset April... Read More

Hey, remember the $1.6 billion Merida Initiative -- the U.S. taxpayer-subsidized spending plan to help Mexico enforce its borders and get the gangs and drug smugglers under control? (Refresher here.) How's it working out? Mira:

The state of our broken borders on the seventh anniversary week of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is unsound. Border security was not mentioned once in John McCain's RNC speech. If, as McCain has grudgingly conceded, immigration is a national security issue, why did it get zero attention in his convention talk? The only insipid comment... Read More

It's your Fence In Name Only alert. Remember all that talk of how the Secure Fence Act allowed DHS to speed up construction with a special waiver process? Well, the waiver process -- like the non-existence fence -- is full of holes. And it's another Bush administration agency that's standing in the way:

I'm posting the ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of the Appeals in the case of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean that came down today. Click here for the 45-page ruling (PDF). Sen. John Cornyn's office has pressed President Bush to commute the sentences: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member... Read More

They just won't stop meddling with our sovereignty. The weenies on the World Court are leaning on their friend President Bush to stop the execution of five illegal alien Death Row inmates. You'll recall that in March, our Supreme Court sided with the state of Texas in upholding US sovereignty and rejecting the World Court/Bush... Read More

Yikes.

Been blogging this disaster for several months (click "virtual fence"), but now it's official. Time to issue another Code Elmo Red homeland insecurity alert. But hey, at least we're building those fences for Egypt and Mexico, right? Read and weep: The government will replace its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border with new... Read More

...Americans didn't do: An alleged gang member accused of killing a 17-year-old high school student just one day after being released from jail has been living in the country illegally, possibly for more than a decade, federal immigration authorities said Saturday. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has filed paperwork naming 19-year-old Pedro Espinoza, the... Read More