Adam Serwer: The real border crisis In practice, administering these laws is thankless work that presents an endless set of miserable, heart-wrenching choices. The Trump administration did not maintain enough shelter beds for children arriving at the border, so where to relocate children languishing in Border Patrol lockups? Building new […]
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Mexico launches measures to limit border crossings from Guatemala
The Mexican government rolled out steps Friday to prevent illegal crossings at its border with Guatemala as the U.S. faces a burgeoning crisis of Central American migrants at its southern border. Mexico’s National Migration Institute, part of the country’s Interior Ministry, announced that various resources, including drones and militarized police, […]
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The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – What’s happening on the US border
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ICE asks for volunteers to deploy to border ‘as soon as this weekend’ to cope with surge
Biden officials who spoke Friday to reporters on the condition that their names not be published said they are working urgently to accelerate the release of the minors to parents and other relatives living in the United States, but this week they have increased their shelter capacity by only about […]
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Texas Guard Deployed as Migrants, Some in Biden T-shirts, Flood Border States
After President Joe Biden signed executive orders ending several “zero-tolerance” anti-immigration policies instated by former Republican President Donald Trump, a surge of immigrants have begun arriving along the U.S. southern border. Some wearing t-shirts that read, “Biden Let Us In.” In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has deployed the Texas […]
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Number of Immigrant Families Illegally Crossing U.S. Border Rises to Pre-Covid-19 Levels
DEL RIO, Texas—Throughout the pandemic, this border city’s Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition has typically assisted about 25 migrants a week who enter the U.S. illegally with their families and seek asylum. In the last week of January, 341 migrants passed through its center, quickly overtaxing the organization’s resources and […]
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German carmakers fear output snags from virus border checks
William Wilkes and Peter Laca, Bloomberg Published 11:08 a.m. ET Feb. 15, 2021 | Updated 11:36 a.m. ET Feb. 15, 2021 Travel restrictions at Germany’s border with the Czech Republic risk severing automotive supply lines that could spark a wave of production stoppages, according to Germany’s VDA automaker association. From […]
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Germany tightens border checks to keep out virus variants
Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, speaking at Schirnding on the Czech border, said that “not taking the (virus) mutations seriously would mean significant consequences.” Soeder, whose state contains half the German-Czech border and the entire German-Austrian border, noted that districts on the Czech border have particularly high infection rates. “On top […]
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While America remains in the grips of COVID, migrants eye a dash for the border
President Biden should have seen this coming months ago, when he began describing his plans for a mass amnesty coupled with removal of all of the successful impediments to illegal immigration put in place by the Trump administration. As Biden’s campaign rhetoric zeroed in on a radical immigration agenda last […]
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival to include film about deaths along border
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in its 11th year partnering with Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts, is returning to San Diego virtually in February. Because the festival has moved to a digital platform due to the ongoing pandemic, from February 2 through 8, viewers from across the United […]
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I’ll meet you at the border: International love in a pandemic
BLAINE — For months, the only place Bobby Warwick and Sarah Foo have been able to see each other is a 19-acre park on the U.S.-Canadian border. Warwick, 28, is an engineer who lives in Mukilteo. Foo, 26, works as a dental assistant in Burnaby, a city south of Vancouver. […]
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OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Government scientists predicted border wall construction could harm wildlife refuge | Haaland nomination generates excitement in Native American communities | Trump officials wrongly awarded Alaska grant in bid to open Tongass
TGIF! Welcome to Overnight Energy, The Hill’s roundup of the latest energy and environment news. Please send tips and comments to Rebecca Beitsch at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccabeitsch. Reach Rachel Frazin at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter: @RachelFrazin. Signup for our newsletter and others HERE. PUTTING UP […]
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Melania Trump Caught On Tape Swearing In Response To Children Separated At Border
As her husband’s administration was separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in the summer of 2018, first lady Melania Trump dismissed the gravity of the situation, telling a friend and former aide: “They said, ‘Oh, what about the children that were separated?’ Give me a fucking break.” CNN aired her […]
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Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall, making him the latest in a long list of Trump allies to […]