‘Significant Surge’ of crossings at US-Mexico border
Texas Democrats warn that a crisis at the border could be weeks or even days away, the Houston Chronicle reports. The warnings come as the Biden administration moves to establish Ellis-Island-style rapid-processing hubs to release migrants into the U.S. within 72 hours. Source: https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/05/democrats-warn-of-coming-crisis-at-the-border/ [Disclaimer]
A group of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were photographed on Tuesday wearing T-shirts and carrying signs that said, “Biden please let us in!” The migrants were photographed at the San Ysidro crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California, carrying signs and shouting slogans in support of President Joe Biden’s proposed immigration policies, Fox News reported. Biden is…
9,000 unaccompanied alien children projected for February — traditionally a low-travel month. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) apprehended by CBP at the Southwest border in February is projected to increase by 50 percent compared to January, to 9,000. February is traditionally one of the lowest travel months for illegal…
A Guatemalan migrant and his son cross to the United States, via the Rio Grande natural border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, in search of political asylum. (Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images) MCALLEN, Tex. — President Biden’s more-welcoming message to immigrants is facing an immediate challenge along the Mexican border, where Central American families…
Led by Rep. James Comer, 19 Republicans asked the Biden administration to take a tougher stance on the US-Mexico border.Greg Nash/Pool via AP House Republicans on Friday asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to take a tougher approach on the US-Mexico border to “prevent the impending catastrophe” they say is coming due to President Biden’s new…
A Honduran migrant child is helped off a Guatemalan army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan…
Honduran boys whose family wants to seek asylum in the U.S., play on the sidewalk in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Thousands of people are waiting to claim asylum and more come each day, falsely believing they will be able to enter the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is out of office….
Elliot Spagat/Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico — After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. “It seems the new president wants to help migrants,” Mr. Osorio said as he got…
Montana Representative Matt Rosendale stands at a portion of the completed border wall on the Arizona/Mexico border. Photo: Congressman Rosendale Fresh off a week-long tour of security installations along Arizona’s border with Mexico, Montana congressman Matt Rosendale blasted the Biden administration’s actions halting construction of former President Donald Trump’s southern border wall. “The first thing…