Texas

REPORT: Self-Proclaimed Hezbollah Terrorist Arrested at Border in Texas

Article title: 
REPORT: Self-Proclaimed Hezbollah Terrorist Arrested at Border in Texas
Article subtitle: 
Article author: 
Bob Price
Article publisher: 
Breitbart News
Article date: 
Mon, 03/18/2024
Article expiration date: 
Mon, 09/30/2024
Article importance: 
High
Article body: 

Hezbollah Terrorist Apprehended near El Paso

Getty Images and U.S. Border Patrol

 

A Lebanese migrant apprehended near El Paso, Texas, reportedly claims to be a Hezbollah terrorist. The Lebanese national claimed to be headed to New York and said he wanted to make a bomb.

Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso. “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi told Border Patrol agents when asked why he came to the U.S., according to an exclusive report by the New York Post.

Agents captured Ebbadi on March 9 after he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The agents transported the Lebanese man to the El Paso hardened facility for processing and investigation. Two days later, Ebbadi told the agents he was going to make a bomb. The agents moved the man to isolation and contacted the Tactical Terrorism Response Team to conduct an interview.

During the interview on March 12, agents Mirandized the man who later admitted to being a member of a foreign terrorist organization.

Ebbadi also reportedly admitted he trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member for an additional four years. His duties included guarding weapons locations.

During the first four months of Fiscal Year 24, which began on October 1, 2023, nearly 60 migrants illegally entering the United States have been identified as being on the terror watch list. Approximately 270 more were apprehended in the prior two fiscal years — shattering prior records.

 

2 more states join lawsuit against Obama's executive amnesty

Article title: 
2 more states join lawsuit against Obama's executive amnesty
Article subtitle: 
Article author: 
Article publisher: 
Associated Press
Article date: 
Mon, 01/26/2015
Article importance: 
High
Article body: 

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas says two more states have joined its coalition suing over the Obama administration's executive action on immigration, meaning 26 states are now part of the case.

New Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that Nevada and Tennessee have officially become part of the coalition.

More than half the states are now fighting the order in a federal court in Brownsville.

Announced in November, the president's unilateral move is designed to spare millions of people living illegally in the United States from deportation. The lawsuit accuses the White House of "trampling" the Constitution.

Church volunteers say immigrant surge will continue

Article title: 
Church volunteers say immigrant surge will continue
Article subtitle: 
Article author: 
Julian Aguilar
Article publisher: 
The Texas Tribune
Article date: 
Wed, 12/24/2014
Article importance: 
Medium
Article body: 

McALLEN — The media tent that once stood in the parking lot of Sacred Heart Church is gone, as are the television crews and reporters who descended this summer when the flow of Central American immigrants illegally crossing the Texas border was major news.

But after a brief lull, the surge of undocumented families passing through a temporary shelter set up by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley seems to be rising again. The spotlight may have turned away, but if the sense of crisis is gone, the people have not stopped coming. 

“The numbers increased a lot this past month, almost to 100 every day [last week],” said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. “We have seen some that have already been caught and tried again. They have hope that they have a chance at a better life here.”

After Christmas, she said, the charity will begin searching for a facility to turn what began as a temporary shelter into a permanent offering.

Texas demographer: 'It's basically over for Anglos'

Article title: 
Texas demographer: 'It's basically over for Anglos'
Article author: 
Gary Scharrer
Article publisher: 
Texas Politics
Article date: 
Thu, 02/24/2011
Article importance: 
Medium
Article body: 

Looking at population projections for Texas, demographer Steve Murdock concludes: "It's basically over for Anglos."

Two of every three Texas children are now non-Anglo and the trend line will become even more pronounced in the future, said Murdock, former U.S. Census Bureau director and now director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University.

Steve Murdock.jpg
Steve Murdock

Today's Texas population can be divided into two groups, he said. One is an old and aging Anglo and the other is young and minority. Between 2000 and 2040, the state's public school enrollment will see a 15 percent decline in Anglo children while Hispanic children will make up a 213 percent increase, he said.

 

 

Surge of immigrants from India baffles border officials in Texas

Article title: 
Surge of immigrants from India baffles border officials in Texas
Article subtitle: 
Thousands from India have entered Texas illegally from Mexico in the last year. Most are Sikhs who claim religious persecution at home.
Article author: 
By Richard Marosi and Andrew Becker
Article publisher: 
Chicago Tribune
Article date: 
Sun, 02/06/2011
Article importance: 
Medium
Article body: 

February 6, 2011

Reporting from Harlingen, Texas —

 Thousands of immigrants from India have crossed into the United States illegally at the southern tip of Texas in the last year, part of a mysterious and rapidly growing human-smuggling pipeline that is backing up court dockets, filling detention centers and triggering investigations.

The immigrants, mostly young men from poor villages, say they are fleeing religious and political persecution. More than 1,600 Indians have been caught since the influx began here early last year, while an undetermined number, perhaps thousands, are believed to have sneaked through undetected, according to U.S. border authorities.

Hundreds have been released on their own recognizance or after posting bond. They catch buses or go to local Indian-run motels before flying north for the final leg of their months-long journeys.

 

 

Subscribe to RSS - Texas