Hundreds of migrants are waiting in squalid camps in Mexico for appointments to enter the US legally. They applied via the CBP One app after making arduous journeys from lawless, collapsing homelands. But they fear they will never be allowed in if Donald Trump is elected and cuts off legal pathways to the US
For months, asylum seekers camped on the Mexican side of the border, waiting to legally enter the United States. They hope that Joe Biden wins the election or they fear that they will never enter.Hundreds, if not thousands, of migrants are enduring the muddy, smelly camp in Matamoros as they wait for, they don't know, how long for appointments with Customs and Border Protection.The tents are slick with mold, the stench of the portable toilets wafts through the air, mingling with the scent of...
Border Patrol agents on the southern border saw an unusual reprieve in the number of migrants crossing from Mexico in March compared to prior years, a trend that bucks the springtime surge that follows pent-up demand from a winter slowdown in travel. Border authorities apprehended 137,000 migrants at the 2,000-mile southern border in March, according […]
Joe Biden indicated in a Tuesday interview with the Spanish-language network Univision that he was going to issue an executive order to drastically limit border crossings for asylum seekers. No details have been released on the shape and scope of the EO, but White House sources are telling Axios that the policy change will be announced by the end of the month.
Migrants left Southern Mexico over a week ago earlier this week. About 1,000 are in Chihuahua City headed to El Paso, Texas. Texas shelters expecting migrants to surge over border in coming days
Savion Amari Donovan Johnson, 26, was arrested in Brackettville, Texas, on Sunday. He turned around at border checkpoint sparking chase and migrant jumped out of the car. Police hauled him out of the SUV and discovered he was with the Texas National Guard
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A Hispanic Florida voter told MSNBC this week why President Joe Biden's border policies are problematic for his re-election campaign.The Biden campaign distributed a memo this week, according to NBC News, expressing belief that Biden can win the Sunshine State in 2024, though the odds are stacked against him. Not only did Donald Trump win the state in 2016 and 2020, but Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) overwhelmingly won re-election two years ago, bolstered by Florida's large contingent of Hispanic...
Turkish migrant Ugur has said he paid a Mexican cartel to take him to the border with the US, in hopes of making it to Los Angeles to work for DoorDash. Speaking to Fox News, the 33-year-old said he had paid $6,500 to the group and fled Turkey due to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Latest figures from Customs and Border Protection showed that in the month of February the agency encountered 189,922 at the southern border
The rust-colored barrier soars into the cloudless blue sky, a solid and almost impassable marker of the border between Mexico and the United States. But then it stops, when the rough, hilly terrain becomes a mountain, or a large boulder blocks the way. These are the spots well known by human smugglers, who bring migrants in vans, show them the gaps, tell them to head north and to call 911 if they can’t find US Border Patrol officers to hand themselves in. A few months ago, sometimes hundreds of...
Many Americans think of the surge in southern border crossings and the threat from China as two completely different issues. They shouldn’t.