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View of the US-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona on September 17, 2025. As of 2022, approximately 11 million people lived in the United States illegally, according to government figures. And this figure may have risen since then to as many as 14 million, according to the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute. Undocumented workers paid $97 billion in taxes in 2022 alone, according to Americans for Tax Fairness. Figures from 2024 from the US Labor Department said nearly half of the foreign-born workforce in America is Latino. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

‘MOST SECURE border in American history’: Illegal southern border crossings drop to lowest annual level in over 50 years

The Trump administration ended fiscal year 2025 with the lowest amount of United States Border Patrol apprehensions since 1970. As a testament to the administration’s success, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also reported the lowest total monthly illegal border encounters ever recorded.

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(Background) Kash Patel takes his seat as he arrives for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be FBI Director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) CORRECTION / A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chemist checks tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York. According to US government data, about 32,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2018. That accounts for 46 percent of all fatal overdoses. Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for a range of conditions, has been central to the American opioid crisis which began in the late 1990s. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP) / "The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Don EMMERT has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl] instead of [confiscated powder containing fentanyl]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require." (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI indicts 3 Americans, 22 Chinese nationals and 4 chemical companies after seizing ‘Enough fentanyl to kill 70M Americans’

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the federal indictments of 22 Chinese nationals, four China-based chemical companies, and three Americans for their role in a fentanyl supply chain. The discovery was made possible in part by Operation Box Cutter.

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