‘Humara khoon khaul raha tha’: Lawrence Bishnoi’s cousin claims Salman Khan offered cheque to settle dispute, backs…
The ongoing dispute between Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and gangster Lawrence Bishnoi dates back to the 1998 blackbuck hunting case, where the actor had killed the animal, considered sacred by the Bishnoi community.
Guatemalan migrant wanted for child abuse, violence against women, abuse of power ousted from US: ICE
A man wanted in Guatemala for child abuse and more was arrested last month by Harrisburg Police for simple assault and strangulation, but has since been deported, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia removed Romeo Pop Sacui, a citizen of Guatemala with a final order of removal, to Guatemala Oct. 22,” an ICE press release noted. “Pop is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Guatemala for child abuse, violence against women and abuse of power.” ICE reported that U.S. Border Patrol arrested the man in 2019, but that ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations San Diego placed him in the Alternatives to Detention program and let him go on an order of recognizance. TENNESSEE AG EXPOSES ICE’S PLAN TO RELEASE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF DANGEROUS CRIMES INTO STATE After the man absconded, ERO Miami removed him from the program, the ICE press release states, adding that a Justice Department immigration judge ordered the man be ousted from the U.S. Harrisburg Police arrested the man in September 2024 for simple assault and strangulation, and then later in September, ERO Philadelphia arrested him, according to ICE. “Protecting the American public is a key priority for ERO officers,” ERO Philadelphia Field Office Director Cammilla Wamsley noted, according to the ICE press release. “Our officers routinely arrest and remove violent criminal noncitizens, such as Romeo Pop Sacui, who have broken laws in their home country and continue to do so in the U.S.” HARRIS STUMBLES ON THE BORDER WHEN PRESSED ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: ‘IS A BORDER WALL STUPID?’ U.S. border security has been an issue of discussion amid the 2024 presidential race. Former President Donald Trump has said that he would pursue “largest mass deportation in” American history. ‘IT’S A MESS’: VULNERABLE HOUSE DEM SHREDS BIDEN ON BORDER CRISIS IN ‘CLOSING MESSAGE’ OF CAMPAIGN “On behalf of every American who has lost a loved one due to this border crisis, we’re going to kick some cartel ass when President Donald J. Trump takes office,” Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, declared in a tweet.
Jordan subpoenas Biden-Harris admin for cost of housing illegal migrants at taxpayers’ expense
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has subpoenaed the Biden-Harris administration for the cost the federal government has spent on housing illegal immigrants at taxpayers’ expense. In a letter Tuesday, Jordan demanded Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra answer about the Biden-Harris administration’s “enforcement of federal immigration law and its implementation of policies that prioritize illegal aliens and refugees over U.S. citizens and other legal residents.” Since July, Jordan said the committee, which conducts oversight over the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a component entity of HHS, has sought information about ORR’s coordination with the State Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “use taxpayer dollars to pay for housing assistance for aliens in the country.” The committee has also sought information about ORR’s relationship with Church World Service, a faith-based non-profit organization, and the organization’s Refugee Housing Solutions, “through which aliens can be connected with housing resources,” the letter says. TEXAS AG SUES BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN FOR NOT VERIFYING CITIZENSHIP OF 450K ‘POTENTIALLY INELIGIBLE’ VOTERS Jordan said the committee sent multiple requests to the ORR director for documents and communications related to the “ORR’s role in providing housing assistance and housing referrals for refugees, parolees and other aliens in the United States,” but she repeatedly missed deadlines to send that information. The committee, after repeatedly seeking “her voluntary cooperation with our oversight and reiterating our outstanding requests,” ultimately received seven pages of documents on Oct. 4, “which included nothing of substance and cannot possibly encompass all relevant documents and communications in HHS’s possession or control,” Jordan wrote. “The failure to provide the requested materials hinders the Committee’s ability to fulfill its constitutional oversight obligations.” NEW REPORT REVEALS MASSIVE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BENEFITING FROM BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN’S ‘QUIET AMNESTY’ The letter cites how the Supreme Court has recognized that Congress has a “broad and indispensable” power to conduct oversight, which “encompasses inquiries into the administration of existing laws, studies of proposed laws, and surveys in our social, economic or political system for the purpose of enabling Congress to remedy them.” “Pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee has jurisdiction to conduct oversight of matters concerning federal immigration law to inform potential legislative reforms,” Jordan wrote. “These potential legislative reforms could include, among other proposals, limiting funding of housing assistance for aliens and ensuring that U.S. taxpayer dollars are used to benefit the American people, many of whom are struggling to buy homes and pay rent.” “To inform such potential reforms, the Committee must first understand the Biden-Harris Administration’s current application of federal immigration law,” Jordan added.
‘I’m going with Trump’: 3 former Dems from Pennsylvania explain how former president won them over
Former registered Democrats in Pennsylvania who now support former President Donald Trump predict a wave of traditional Democrat voters quietly pulling the ballot box lever for the Republican ticket over Vice President Kamala Harris in the key battleground state this year. “This is Lackawanna County, okay. This is Scranton. This is where Joe Biden was born. This is where Robert Reich was born. Hillary Clinton has ties here with her family. This was a deep, deep blue county. But, when you walk into the poll, I think a lot of these people are going to are going to think twice and think, ‘well, nobody knows how I’m voting — which is the way it’s supposed to be – I’m going with Trump,’” registered Independent voter David Kveragas told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview this week. Kveragas is a resident of the battleground county of Lackawanna, which is nestled in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley and has traditionally voted blue, last throwing its support behind a Republican in 1984 during President Ronald Reagan’s blowout election when he won each state except Washington, D.C., and Minnesota — the home state of Reagan’s competitor that year, former Vice President Walter Mondale. The county has trended right in recent elections, however, teeing up a heightened election battle that will likely help determine how the key battleground state will swing come Nov. 5. KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE VOTER REGISTRATION DATA SHOWS INFLUENTIAL SHIFTS FAVORING GOP Fox News Digital spoke with three Lackawanna County residents who were all previously-registered Democrats who now full-heartedly support Trump, despite initial hesitance and even outright disapproval during his first presidential run in 2016. Susanne Green is a former Democrat who even previously worked for Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C., as the abortion provider’s financial manager and now supports Trump and is actively involved as a volunteer for the campaign. Green said that she also anticipates her left-leaning neighbors and friends will quietly vote for Trump. “They may be registered Republican or Democrat or independent, but they have told me privately, ‘Susanne, I’m not going to put a sign in my yard. I don’t want everybody to know who I’m voting for, but I’m going to vote for Trump,’” Green told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview this month. Vince Sardo, a retired firefighter and former union boss of the Dunmore Firefighters IAFF Local 860, told Fox News Digital in a separate interview he also believes many of his Democrat friends and neighbors will vote for Trump without fanfare or changing their political affiliation. “I have many friends that are registered Democrats, I’m not going to mention names, but some of them are Democratic leaders in communities, and they’re voting for Trump,” the formerly longtime registered Democrat told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview. ‘VINDICTIVE’: DEMOCRAT IN TIGHT SENATE RACE BLASTED BY GOP RIVAL FOR SWIPE AT MCDONALD’S AFTER TRUMP VISIT Political eyes are locked on Pennsylvania as the state that will likely determine the outcome of the election. Trump and Harris have both repeatedly zigzagged the state campaigning in recent weeks, while voter registration for the state released this week shows sizable shifts benefitting the GOP in the final stretch of the election cycle. Following the close of voter registration in Pennsylvania on Monday, the Democratic Party accounts for nearly 44% of registered voters compared to the GOP’s 40% but has seen its advantage over Republicans dwindle this year. President Biden won the state in 2020 by 1.17 percentage points. That year, Democrats had a larger margin of registered voters compared to their Republican counterparts, at 4.2 million to 3.5 million. The data show that Democrats had a registration advantage over Republicans by 685,818 voters during the election that Biden won by 80,555 votes. The GOP has whittled down that lead this year to a 297,824 margin. When comparing registered voters this election year to 2020, Democrats face a net loss of 257,281 voters, while Republicans have a net gain of 428,537 registered voters. More than double the number of previously registered Democrats changed their party affiliation this cycle compared to the number of registered Republicans who left the party: 54,668 registered Democrats changed their party affiliation compared to 25,634 Republicans, Pennsylvania Department of State data shows. “I don’t think it’s going to be quite as close as they’re saying. I mean, both sides are going to say that because you always play like you’re behind. That just goes with campaigning. I just see too much momentum for Trump. We won’t know that night, because in Pennsylvania we’re so slow,” Kveragas said. Fox News Digital spoke with the three Pennsylvania voters about their voting history and found that each individual had deep ties to the Democratic Party before registering as a Republican – or in Kveragas’ case, registering as a Republican in the 1990s, before registering as an Independent when Mitt Romney was at the top of the GOP presidential ticket in 2012. Green told Fox News Digital that she was raised in a Catholic, Democratic household in Pennsylvania, similar to many people across the commonwealth back in the 1960s and 1970s. She argued that the Democratic Party of her youth had morphed into the left-wing party that she described as “radical.” “It meant that you were a patriot,” Green told Fox Digital of what it meant to be a Democrat back in the 1970s. “That was a time when there was the bicentennial and everything was red, white and blue. There was, you know, happy patriotism … It was about doing what was right for your country. It was living together in harmony.” INEFFECTIVE PLANNING, LACK OF CONNECTIONS HAS DEMS ON EDGE IN ‘KEY’ BATTLEGROUND: REPORT Green registered as a Democrat as a young adult and spoke with Fox Digital about her employment with Planned Parenthood as its financial manager in Washington, D.C., in 2000. “Safe, legal and rare. Which was the advertisement at the time when I worked at Planned Parenthood. That abortion should be safe, legal and rare. And I
Bomb threats to Indian planes continue: More than 80 flights receive fresh security alerts
A total of 20 domestic and international flights of IndiGo Airlines received a fresh security-related warning on Thursday.
North Carolina voters will decide on amendment to explicitly bar noncitizens from voting in elections
Next month, North Carolinians will decide whether “only” U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in future state elections. House Bill 1074, referred to as the “Citizen Only Voting” amendment, would clarify the state’s constitution to read that “only a citizen” is allowed to vote in the Old North State. North Carolina law currently reads that “every person born in the United States and every person who has been naturalized, 18 years of age, and possessing the qualifications set out in this Article, shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people of the State, except as herein otherwise provided.” While the state already does not allow noncitizens to vote, proponents say the amendment establishes confidence in elections amid the ongoing immigration crisis. BALANCE OF POWER: HELENE COULD SHIFT POLITICAL WINDS TOWARD TRUMP, NORTH CAROLINA LAWMAKERS SAY The amendment, if passed, would adjust the wording to say that “only a citizen of the United States who is 18 years of age and otherwise possessing the qualifications for voting shall be entitled to vote at any election in this State.” ‘MOMALA’ HARRIS COUNTS ON DURHAM, NC, TECH MILLENIALS WHO WANT TO TURN US INTO SF “Ensuring that only U.S. Citizens in North Carolina can vote is a critical step that is needed in order to have confidence in our elections,” North Carolina GOP Chairman Jason Simmons wrote in a press release after the amendment was officially placed on the 2024 ballot. Other supporters of the amendment say it is a matter of prevention. “Democrats in far-left cities and states are doing everything they possibly can to allow noncitizens to vote in elections. The best defense we can mount against these attacks on democracy is to empower the people of North Carolina to amend their own constitution to state that only U.S. citizens shall vote in our elections,” State Sen. Brad Overcash, R-Gaston, said of the amendment. However, the amendment has received pushback from critics who say it is “an unnecessary and anti-immigrant tactic that will further marginalize North Carolina’s immigrant communities.” “As an immigrant to North Carolina who went through the grueling process of naturalization so that I could become a citizen and participate in democracy by voting, I fear that this proposed change in the language of our constitution is a stepping stone to further disenfranchising and disempowering us and our communities,” said Jasmina Nogo, staff attorney with the Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project at the NC Justice Center. Over a million ballots have already been cast in North Carolina after early voting started on Oct. 17.
BATTLEGROUND SERIES: Key swing state’s 6 electoral votes hinge on candidate performances in this county
LAS VEGAS – The election results in Clark County, Nevada, will play a critical role in deciding which presidential candidate takes home the state’s 6 electoral votes in a county where independent voters and party switchers could make the difference. There are roughly 1.4 million active registered voters in Clark County, Nevada, including about 450,000 Democrats, 350,000 Republicans and more than 500,000 voters who identify as nonpartisan, Independent, or Libertarian, which makes up about 70% of the voters in the state of Nevada. Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won Clark County by 10 points in 2016, and President Biden won by about the same margin in 2020. The Democratic candidates won Nevada overall those years by less than three points, and former Presidnet Donald Trump’s ability to narrow the gap in Clark County will play a key role in his chances to become the first Republican to win Nevada since former President George W. Bush in 2004. Union workers employed by hotel casinos in Las Vegas, who work for unions that typically endorse and canvas for Democrats, play a significant role in Clark County elections. TRUMP WITH SLIGHT EDGE OVER HARRIS IN THIS CRUCIAL WESTERN BATTLEGROUND: POLL Fox News Digital spoke with two of those union members earlier this month, when both said that housing costs are a key issue for them. “I will be a first-time home buyer. I want to keep my son in a house…I don’t want to be rent to rent, that’s one of the biggest issues right now here I would say in Nevada,” Lino Paredes, a member of the Culinary Workers Union which endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, said, adding that he supports Harris’ proposed program to help with down payments for houses. “And then, with these prices, you know, price gouging from these corporations. They’re not helping us at all, so we’re asking, and we’re looking for someone that is willing to help…she’s a very talented woman, and so I think that she will lead this country.” Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald recently told Fox News Digital that the enthusiasm for the Republican ticket in Nevada, specifically Clark County, is more than he has ever seen and suggested that Trump will be successful courting union voters with his platform that includes eliminating taxes on tips. ‘SHE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING’: NEVADA VOTERS FRUSTRATED WITH BIDEN-HARRIS BORDER POLICY AS ELECTION LOOMS “I think the energy has risen,” McDonald said. “You could call for a rally, you’re talking about 5,000 people who get turned away because there’s just no room. You’re talking about people that when you call for volunteers, they’re all over the place. Our walkers, we don’t have just members. We have teams that are going out which we’ve never seen before.” Jon Ralston, CEO and editor of The Nevada Independent, told Spectrum News 1 that Trump’s position on taxing tips could be significant in Clark County. “Trump is really using that as his signature issue here,” Ralston said. “If he can penetrate past the leadership, into the rank-and-file, and divide them a little bit, that could cut down the Democratic margin in Clark County and that’s how he could win the state.” “And you know, the Democrats, they have union workers that are being paid to walk out as volunteers. And we have teams now that you’ve never seen before. So the energy and enthusiasm is right in our wheelhouse.” Early voting in Nevada began last weekend, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that out of the voters who cast their ballots on the first day in Clark County, 49.2% were Republicans, 30.5% were Democrats and 20.2% were Independents. On Thursday, Ralston reported that Republicans have a statewide early voting lead of 17,000 in Nevada, with Democrats leading in Clark County by just under 7,000. In addition to the presidential race, Clark County will also play a key role in determining who the next senator of Nevada is, as incumbent Jacky Rosen faces a challenger from Republican war veteran Sam Brown. Fox News Digital recently reported that Brown has narrowed the gap with Rosen with less than two weeks to go before Election Day. “The number-one issue that folks have been worried about for the last couple of years has been the economy and how this Biden-Harris economy has put so much pressure on individuals, on families,” Brown recently told Fox News Digital at an event with GOP Sen. John Kennedy in Las Vegas. NEVADA SENATE HOPEFULS TACKLE TRANS ATHLETES, IMMIGRATION AND UFOS IN ONLY DEBATE The Hispanic vote is also expected to play a large role in determining the success of both presidential candidates in Clark County. Democratic campaigns and affiliated groups have poured nearly $3.5 million into Spanish language TV ads in Nevada, far surpassing the money Republicans have spent on similar ads, NBC News reported. “They’re crucial at every level of the ticket,” Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha told the outlet regarding the Hispanic vote. Polling shows Trump making historic gains with Hispanic voters compared to previous Republican candidates. Fox News Digital spoke to attendees at a pro-Trump Latino outreach event in Clark County earlier this month, and several Hispanic voters discussed how illegal immigration is an important issue for them. “Between the drugs, the human trafficking, and now the millions of illegal immigrants that we have crossing over that we have not vetted or that have actually been charged for murder in other countries,” Lydia Dominguez, a Clark County resident, told Fox News Digital. “So it’s alarming what’s happening at the border.” The Real Clear Politics average of polling between Trump and Harris shows Trump with a slim lead of less than a percentage point as both candidates and their surrogates have made multiple trips to Nevada in recent weeks.
10 celebrities campaigning for Harris in election’s final weeks
Celebrities are increasingly hitting the campaign trail in support of Vice President Kamala Harris as the U.S. is now less than two weeks away from Election Day. Harris has already received support from musical artists Megan Thee Stallion, Bon Iver and John Legend, who have shown up for her at events in Georgia and Wisconsin. Here are 10 more celebrities that are campaigning for Harris in her 2024 campaign’s final weeks: The rapper appeared at a Harris-Walz campaign rally on Tuesday in Detroit, Michigan, telling a crowd there, “The spotlight is on us more than ever and I think it’s important to use your voice.” EMINEM CAMPAIGNS FOR KAMALA HARRIS – WILL IT SWAY DETROIT VOTERS? “I also think that people shouldn’t be afraid to express their opinions and I don’t think anyone wants an America where people are worried about retribution or what people will do if you make your opinion known,” he continued. “I think Vice President Harris supports a future for this country where these freedoms and many others will be protected and upheld.” The Harris campaign announced a concert series with Bruce Springsteen in battleground states to mobilize voters with less than two weeks to go until Election Day. The Harris campaign’s “When We Vote We Win” concert series will begin on Thursday in the Atlanta area, followed by a second show on Monday in Philadelphia. The concert series will hit all seven battleground states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The pop star joined Harris last weekend at a rally in Atlanta, telling a crowd at the Lakewood Amphitheater, “Normally, I’m up here to entertain, but today for something far more significant for Atlanta and all of Georgia.” TRUMP, HARRIS NECK AND NECK IN BATTLEGROUND STATES ARIZONA, GEORGIA, NORTH CAROLINA The “Yeah!” singer said that he supports Harris because she “fights for everyone’s rights, for freedom, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.” “She has a vision for our country that includes everyone.” The singer and rapper backed Harris at a get-out-the-vote rally in the singer’s hometown of Detroit on Saturday, calling Michigan the “swing state of all swing states, so every last vote here counts.” She added, “If you ask me if America is ready for its first woman president, I only have one thing to say: ‘It’s about damn time!’” referencing her 2022 song. The actress campaigned for Harris during five events in Georgia earlier this month. At a reproductive freedom rally in Cherokee County, Roberts said, “I believe in Georgia. I wouldn’t have come home if I didn’t believe that we can accomplish really beautiful goals that will extend beyond our state’s borders.” “I just hope that all the women here tonight talk to all the men that aren’t here tonight. And all you brave men that are here tonight, talk to all the other men who aren’t here tonight. And let’s just get it going, enough with the fighting,” she added. The singer performed “Happy Birthday” to Harris on Sunday at a church in Jonesboro, Ga., as the vice president turned 60. TRUMP CAMPAIGN’S CLOSING MESSAGE TO VOTERS: ‘HARRIS BROKE IT, TRUMP WILL FIX IT’ “We’re going to make the difference between yesterday and tomorrow,” Wonder told a crowd there while delivering a message to go out and vote, according to The Associated Press. The country music legend is set to host a “Cannabis Community Virtual Rally for Kamala Harris” on Thursday night, where he will be joined in a Zoom call with Whoopi Goldberg, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and others. He then will appear tomorrow night alongside Harris at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas. The actress has recently campaigned for Harris in both Arizona and Pennsylvania. In Lancaster County, Garner said, “I love that [Kamala Harris] is going to help small businesses get up and running,” according to WHTM. “I love that she is going to help young people or people with first time homeownership and that she’s going to build more houses and really address the housing crisis we have in this country,” Garner added. Actor Samuel L. Jackson and director Spike Lee are scheduled to join Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen tonight at the first “When We Vote, We Win” concert in Clarkston, Ga. Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
Competitive Virginia House race tied as Republican incumbent battles challenger
A red-leaning House race in Virginia has become more competitive, as the Republican incumbent Rep. Jen Kiggans’ lead ahead of Democratic challenger Missy Cotter Smasal narrowed to a statistically insignificant 1 point, according to a new poll. Kiggans received 46% support among registered likely voters in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, while Smasal garnered 45%, according to a new poll by the Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University. The Republican’s lead has tightened since the same poll in mid-September when Kiggans was 5 points ahead of Smasal. The margins of error for both polls were 3.9 percentage points. The district centered around Virginia Beach that includes Chesapeake, Suffolk, Isle of Wight and Virginia’s eastern shore is considered one of the most competitive in the state. Both Republicans and Democrats have cited it as among those critical to securing control of the House for the next two years. 2 SWING DISTRICTS IN NEW YORK SPLIT AS GOP INCUMBENTS FIGHT TO HOLD SEATS Home to the largest naval base in the country, the district’s voting population is heavily active duty and retired miliary, and both candidates are veterans. Of likely voters, 46% trusted Kiggans more to handle military and veteran’s issues, compared to 42% who trusted Smasal more, according to the poll. The poll found Smasal is trusted more, 49% to 35%, to handle “reproductive rights.” The district has flipped between red and blue twice already over the past six years. Fox News Power Rankings has the district leaning red this election cycle. NEW JERSEY BATTLEGROUND HOUSE DISTRICT POLL FINDS TIGHT RACE AS GOP SEEKS TO RETAIN SEAT The poll showed Vice President Harris two points ahead of former President Trump among likely voters in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. The lean of the district shifted more to the right after it was redrawn following the 2020 census, but President Biden still won it by two points. “If this margin holds, I think we’ll see something similar for Harris” statewide, Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, research director for the Wason Center, told the Washington Post. “Fundamentally, it’s going to be about how well Harris performs in the state,” she said. “If she does really well, Cotter Smasal has a chance … if we’re seeing really high Democratic turnout and suppressed Republican turnout.” GET THE FOX NEWS APP BY CLICKING HERE Though, Harris’ lead has fallen since September, when the same poll had her ahead by 11 points. In 2021, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin secured the district by 11 points. Kiggans bested Democratic incumbent Rep. Elaine Luria by 3 points. The new poll showed incumbent Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine seven points ahead of Republican challenger Hung Cao among likely voters in Virginia’s 2nd district.
New report reveals massive number of illegal immigrants benefiting from Biden-Harris admin’s ‘quiet amnesty’
FIRST ON FOX: Nearly 1 million illegal immigrants are staying in the U.S. “indefinitely” after their cases were dismissed or closed, or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to file the necessary documentation, according to a new House Judiciary Committee report being released on Thursday. “Through administrative maneuvering at both the Justice Department and DHS, the Biden-Harris Administration has already ensured that nearly 1 million illegal aliens can remain in the United States without the possibility of deportation—and that trend shows no sign of stopping,” the report by the House majority on the committee, first obtained by Fox News Digital, says. When illegal immigrants are encountered, they can be put into removal proceedings by which they will eventually face an immigration judge to have their case decided. There are around 700 immigration judges across the U.S., and they currently face a backlog of millions of cases after the historic crisis at the border. BIDEN ADMIN FACES SCRUTINY OVER RESPONSE TO ‘SIGNIFICANT RISE’ OF ASSAULTS ON BORDER PATROL AGENTS The report cites briefings to the committee, which staff say revealed that over 700,000 illegal immigrants have had their immigration cases dismissed, terminated or administratively closed in immigration court during the current administration, “allowing those aliens to stay in the country indefinitely without facing immigration consequences.” Additionally, it says that the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which oversees immigration courts, reported over 109,000 cases as not adjudicated in FY 23, meaning they were completed but not adjudicated on the merits of the claims. Additionally, as previously reported, DHS has failed to file the necessary documentation for 200,000 additional cases, “meaning that the overwhelming majority of those aliens can also remain in the U.S. indefinitely.” “Instead of actually adjudicating illegal aliens’ cases based on the merits of aliens’ claims for relief—such as whether an alien has a valid and successful asylum claim—immigration judges under the Biden-Harris Administration have been tasked with rubberstamping case dismissals, case closures, and case terminations, all of which allow illegal aliens to remain in the United States without immigration consequences,” the report says. “This sort of quiet amnesty has become a staple of the Biden-Harris Administration’s immigration courts.” The report details that DHS issued a memo in 2022, directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys to promote the closure and dismissal of cases, given the enormous backlog. It was framed as removing “nonpriority cases” from the docket — meaning those who do not qualify as national security, public safety or border security threats. WHAT VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS LEFT OUT ABOUT BIDEN ADMIN’S ROLE IN BORDER CRISIS: A TIMELINE Meanwhile, at the DOJ, the committee points to a 2021 memo issued by Attorney General Merrick Garland, in which he restored the use of a process known as administrative closure to allow a “focus on higher-priority cases.” The committee found, after interviews with officials including a former EOIR director, that immigration judges were encouraged to dismiss or administratively close cases. “In weaponizing both immigration judges within the Justice Department and ICE attorneys within DHS, the Biden-Harris Administration has guaranteed that upward of 1 million aliens—the overwhelming majority of whom likely would otherwise not have a legal basis to remain in the United States—can stay in the country indefinitely,” the report says. “This quiet amnesty not only undermines U.S. immigration law but also incentivizes additional illegal aliens to arrive at America’s borders, knowing they will be released into the country and never deported.” Fox previously reported that dismissing cases can also be problematic for migrants, who may be left in limbo as to their status and what to do next, as a dismissal does not grant a form of legal status either. The DOJ declined to comment, while DHS pointed to stats showing that 96% of notices to appear in court (NTAs) have been filed successfully since Jan 2021, and 98% since the start of FY 23, with the majority of new NTAs being filed digitally and automatically into EOIR systems. The DHS says that when an NTA is not filed correctly or late, the NTA is re-submitted so that the cases can continue at a later date. It stresses that migrants are also told to check in and report changes of address so they can continue to receive information about their cases. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has emphasized a sharp drop in encounters at the border since President Biden signed an executive order limiting entries into the U.S. Encounters are down 55% since then. The agency also says it has completed over 700,000 removals or returns for FY 24, the most since 2010. It comes as immigration remains a top election issue ahead of Nov. 5, with both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris dueling over who is the best candidate to tackle the situation at the border. Get the latest updates on the ongoing border crisis from the Fox News Digital immigration hub.