Wilmington, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden says it will take months to roll back some of President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration, offering a slower timeline than he promised on the campaign trail and one that may rile advocates pushing for speedy action on the issue. His Tuesday comments echo those made by two of…
A plaque commemorating President Donald Trump on the border wall. Photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images 70,000 migrants were caught crossing the Southwest border of the U.S. last month — a 64% increase compared to last November that came in spite of the pandemic and strict immigration enforcement policies, border officials told reporters Monday. Driving the news: Acting…
LOS ANGELES/MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoros, Israel Martinez abandoned his hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Beaten down by the cold and unsanitary conditions in the encampment, Martinez accepted a free flight back to his…
Announcements circulating on social media claim that a migrant caravan is heading for the US southern border. Following two massive hurricanes causing devastation across Central America, it’s understood that thousands of migrants from Chile, Cuba, Guyana, Honduras, Paraguay, and other Central American nations ravaged by storms are headed for the USA. A report published by Bloomberg…
Thousands of Cubans have started to join other migrants in caravans heading for the U.S. southern border to apply for political asylum, Cubans in Latin America have told el Nuevo Herald. From Guyana to Paraguay and Chile, Cuban migrants are posting notes on social networks to join the caravans, which have already created problems in…
Immigration policy would be the most dramatic and immediate reversal of Trump policies when Biden takes office. The most dramatic reversal in the Biden administration versus the Trump administration will come on President Donald Trump’s signature campaign issue from 2016: the border wall. POLITICO illustration President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to put a swift halt…
A June 2019 rally in Little Tokyo to oppose a Trump administration plan to use Fort Sill Army base in Oklahoma as a detention center for immigrant children and other immigrant detainees. (David McNew/AFP via Getty Images) President-elect Joe Biden has promised to put the coronavirus health crisis and economic recovery at the forefront of…
Vice President Joe Biden meets with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina in Guatemala City in June 2014. Biden traveled to Central America in hopes of slowing the flood of child migrants crossing the U.S. border. –(Saul Martinez / EPA) WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden was spending much of his time on Iraq a year into…
Family separations. The travel ban. The wall. Gutting the asylum and refugee systems. Pushing to abolish DACA. Those policies implemented by President Donald Trump helped define his legacy, fulfilling some of his campaign promises while enraging many Americans and further isolating the U.S. from the world. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to reverse most of those restrictionist policies, but it could…
A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp in the Turkish town of Suruc on the Turkish-Syrian border in 2014. President-elect Joe Biden aims to reverse the Trump administration’s dramatic cuts to refugee admissions. —Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to reassert…