Tucker: Leaders refuse to acknowledge this is killing people
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Under Biden, More European and Asian Migrants Seek Entry at U.S.-Mexico Border
The U.S.-Mexico border continues to be a beacon attracting individuals from many nations seeking passage into the United States. In the latest report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP), the agency encountered over 180,000 people during the month of May. Although countries in Latin America, led by Mexico, continue to be the source…
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‘It’s frustrating’: Thousands of migrants sit in Mexico desperate for answers from the Biden administration
Within the span of a year and a half, a Cuban couple living on the US-Mexico border were repeatedly threatened, attacked, and lost a baby after being assaulted, as they waited for their next immigration court date in the United States under a Trump-era policy. There has been a presidential transition since they first…
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Biden outlines 10-day blitz of executive actions to nullify Trump era
Washington: In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said on Saturday. The opening salvo would herald a 10-day blitz of executive actions as Biden seeks to…
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Migrant caravan heads for US southern border
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…
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Biden might need years to reverse Trump’s immigration policies on DACA, asylum, family separation, ICE raids, private detention and more
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…
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Will We See a ‘Biden Effect’ at the Border?
Migrants being floated over the Rio Suchiate border from Guatemala to Mexico, January 2020, where they were required to apply for Mexican asylum if they want to stay. Photo by Todd Bensman. A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 election, official Texas State business brought me to two ICE immigration detention centers in South…
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Briefing: Coronavirus and the halting of asylum at the US-Mexico border
‘Even if the coronavirus abates, we don’t really expect the administration to lift these restrictions.’ Policies put in place by the administration of US President Donald Trump have cut off access to asylum in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, sent COVID-19-positive people back to Latin American countries — where outbreaks are now spiraling…
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Supreme court allows Trump to enforce new hardline immigration policy
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez labels ruling ‘shameful’ Opponents argue it is essentially a ‘wealth test’ US supreme court building is seen in Washington. Photograph: Will Dunham/Reuters The US supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to block immigrants seeking permanent residency in America on the basis of their likelihood to use public benefits such as housing…
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Trump to Illegals: Don’t Get Comfy, You’re ‘Leaving Soon’
A day after unveiling the administration’s merit-based immigration reform proposal amid a national emergency on the southern border, President Donald Trump tweeted a warning for illegal immigrants: “do not make yourselves too comfortable, you will be leaving soon!” President Trump’s early Friday morning tweet read: “All people that are illegally coming into the United States now will be…
