Nogales, Arizona— The lull in illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border continued in October, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection figures obtained by CBS News. But officials worry that could be upended by the presidential election on Tuesday. Border Patrol agents recorded ...
The dramatic reduction in illegal border crossings this year, however, has given Democrats a much-needed political win on immigration ahead of the presidential election next month. Former President Donald Trump, who is pledging to carry out mass deportations if voters return him to the White H...
You see, The United States will now“take a stricter stance on illegal crossings at the Mexico border by separating parents from children, rather than keeping them together in detention centers.” The goal is to terrify people into not even trying to cross the border without 47 forms of ID....
“I have never seen anything like it,” Erik Lavallee, a Vermont-based U.S. Border Patrol Agent,told CBS last month. Just last week, a social media post by the United States Border Patrol reportedapprehending an SUV packedwith nine U.K. nationals that was attempting to enter from Quebec...
Is the Mexican government hiding how many people have gone missing? Feb. 15, 2024 Abbott has rejected concerns over profiling. While signing the bill, he said troopers and National Guard members at the border can see migrants crossing illegally “with their own...
WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE BORDER? Arrests for illegal crossings along the southern border fell by half in January from record highs in December. Border Patrol officials attributed the shift to seasonal declines and heightened enforcement by the U.S. and its allies. The federal government has not...
10“Bush Amnesty Sparks Surge in Border Crossings,” (Fox News, February 19, 2004): “... more than half of the Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. through San Ysidro told authorities they were doing so to position themselves for the amnesty... ‘They believe that they are only re...
However, experts say the fence alone is not responsible for the dramatic decrease in illegal immigration, policies have also deterred illegal border crossings. Border security experts also caution about comparing Israel and the United States’ southern borders -- the U.S.-Mexico...
El Paso, Texas— Unlawful crossings along the U.S. southern border in February remained at a two-year low for the second consecutive month, illustrating the dent that stricter policiesenacted by President Bidenthis year have made on the unprecedented migration flows recorded since he took office....
U.S. immigration officialsprocessedmore than 302,000 migrants along the southern border in December, a record high, according to official government data published Friday. Illegal crossings there have since plummeted, a trend U.S. officials have attributed to increased Mexican immigration enforcement ...