The mayor of a Texas border city at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings says state troopers have closed a large public park along the Rio Grande.
Sep 1, 2023 Border crossings jump despite record heat and asylum limits Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, Arizona, sector have seen the number of migrants arriving daily soar to as many as 1,900, an increase of 134% from June.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman says a large number of migrants in Mexico who tried to push their way into the United States were prevented from crossing a bridge leading to El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Over the past three years, the Biden administration has carried out over 4 million expulsions and deportations – more than the Trump administration. But it has also allowed over 3 million people to remain in the country for years while their immigration cases are heard. And the Border Patrol...
Border & Immigration| November 6, 2020 El Paso’s COVID-19 Spike Is a Binational Problem Leaders on both sides of the Rio Grande claim border crossings, an aspect of daily life in the region, have contributed to the recent surge in infections. ...
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The number of migrants attempting to cross the Southwest border from Mexico after Title 42 was lifted dropped by half this weekend, according to the Department of Homeland Security, and migrant crossings were down by two-thirds in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley....
Border Crossings Cut by Texas Crackdown; Laredo Crime Rate Also Down
For more than two years, Texas has run a smaller-scale operation on the border to arrest migrants on misdemeanor charges of trespassing. Although that was also intended to stem illegal crossings,there is little indicationthat it has done so. ...
At the Capitol, Republican lawmakers are moving to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the House over his handling of the U.S. border while working to kill a bipartisan border deal in the Senate after Biden vowed to "shut down the border" if illegal crossings soar on the...