It's one of many spots along the Texas border where coils of sharp wire have been going up ever since Gov. Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in 2021. Since then, thousands of migrants have been arrested and detained on trespassing charges. State troopers have cracked down on human smuggli...
Migrants didn’t arrive in busloads, as the Texas governor threatened. And though there were some arrests, violence didn’t consume the events of the week. POLITICO asked Mayor Brandon Johnson if he had been worried about how the week might go: “I don’t know what worrying ...
Gilberto himself was kidnapped in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas after the coyote he was traveling with abandoned him. After being released, he crossed the U.S. border with other migrants. But he was not apprehended by Border Patrol agents, unlike the rest of the group. Then 13 years old,...
just crossed the southern border. What is President Biden’s response? To ask for more money just so border agents can process and release those illegal immigrants into American communities more efficiently. The message to would-be migrants and the cartels that control their passage is c...
man who identified himself as an undecided Republican voter if he stood by his claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating pets and other animals despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a thing and local officials have welcomed the legal migrant...
US federal agents at the Texas border arrested as many as 6,555 people when they tried to enter the US illegally. This is an increase in 86 per cent from the previous year. Nicaragua and the Honduras, two of the poorest nations in the hemisphere, were hit the ...
crossed. Once on the other side, Gloria and her family crossed through a small jungle until they reached a road where pick up trucks awaited them. They hopped on the back of one of the trucks, packed in like sardines with other migrants. And then it started to rain. “Here you go,”...
If Green had made it to California, he would have encountered other enslaved people working in the gold mines and on ranches in the Sonoma Valley—as well 300,000 migrants of all nationalities who had arrived to this region by 1860. The slave population included not just African Americans, ...
Clyde argued that the states, including Texas and its separate state-run border mission, “shouldn’t have to take on this immense responsibility; it’s President Biden’s job” and blamed the administration for policies “incentivizing more migrants to travel to the ...
The administration has even stopped using thelegal term"unaccompanied alien children" for underage migrants apprehended by border authorities without their parents and placed in expulsion proceedings. Officials have been calling them "single minors," a change designed to reduce "litigation...