For years, there have been warnings that America’s immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now. Migrants in Matamoros, Mexico, line up for food donations last week as they waited to cross into Brownsville, Tex.CreditCreditIlana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times [Read the latest edition of Crossing the Border, a limited-run newsletter about…
Mounted Border Patrol agents ride along a newly fortified border wall structure on Oct. 26, 2018, in Calexico, Calif. President Donald Trump is visiting Calexico on Friday, April 5, 2019, to tour the recently-built portion of the border fence that bears a silver plaque with his name on it. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) WASHINGTON —…
Vehicles from Mexico and the U.S. approach a border crossing in El Paso, Texas, Monday, April 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio) Cedar Attanasio When historians look back to this era, they will wonder why we insisted on outsourcing our border control to a foreign country. President Donald Trump’s threat to close down the southern border…
Republican state senators passed a resolution that would declare a crisis at the Texas-Mexico border and request Congress to fully fund border security measures. Democratic senators say they never saw the measure until it hit the floor. State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, speaks on his resolution to declare an emergency on the Texas-Mexico border on…
President Donald Trump has threatened again to close the Mexican border because of what he calls an illegal immigration crisis Photo: AFP WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday again threatened to seal the U.S.-Mexican border, claiming in a tweet that America’s southern neighbor is allowing illegal immigrants to cross unhindered. “May close the Southern Border!” the…
Katie Pavlich said photos of hundreds of migrants being held under a bridge in El Paso, Texas, underscore the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The Washington Post reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials set up an improvised holding pen in a parking lot beneath a highway overpass to serve as a processing center because they don’t have…
President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky, left, arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday. Photo: AP WASHINGTON The Democratic-led House failed Tuesday to override President Donald Trump’s first veto, salvaging his effort to steer billions of extra dollars to erecting border barriers and delivering…
Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan declared ‘operational crisis’ and called on Congress for solutions. Migrants being held for processing under the Paso del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Images Images emerged on Wednesday of hundreds of families packed into a grim open air space beneath an underpass, behind…
WASHINGTON — Democrats who have railed against President Donald Trump’s national emergency as a manufactured crisis are facing a political dilemma as border apprehensions have spiked and are on pace for the highest level since 2008. Since Trump took office, congressional Democrats have sought to counter his hard-line immigration agenda by pointing to federal data that…