Tag: Mexico

President Trump begins to walk away.

Trump skips White House Cinco de Mayo party as Mexican ambassador touts ‘flexible border’

Steven Nelson · May 3, 2019 5:30 pm

Mexican ambassador to join White House Cinco de Mayo celebration

Steven Nelson · May 3, 2019 2:43 am

In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, aerial image released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, migrants, apprehended after illegally crossing along the U.S.-Mexico border near Lukeville, Ariz., are lined up. A group of 325 Central Americans surrendered to agents on Thursday after entering the United States illegally.

Top Border Protection official: ‘Absolutely this is a crisis’

Caitlin Yilek · May 2, 2019 6:20 pm

In this Jan. 10, 2018, file photo U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving a employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles.

ICE deported him seven times. Now he’s going to prison following an eighth illegal reentry

Anna Giaritelli · May 1, 2019 6:23 pm

In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas. The migrants said they crossed the river in an inflatable raft and were hoping to be apprehended by the Border Patrol so they could be processed and released.

Border Patrol announces largest-ever group of migrants arrested: 424 people

Anna Giaritelli · April 30, 2019 11:37 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are pictured.

Democrats resist vote on Trump USMCA deal despite Mexico’s labor reforms

Sean Higgins · April 30, 2019 9:29 pm

U.S. police and Border Patrol hold a line as members of an inter-faith group, showing support for Central American asylum-seekers who arrived in recent caravans and calling for an end to detaining and deporting immigrants, pray during a protest in San Diego, as seen from across the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.

FBI investigating alleged antifa scheme to ‘stage an armed rebellion at the border’

Diana Stancy Correll · April 30, 2019 7:10 pm

In this Monday, June 4, 2018 photo, people seeking political asylum in the United States line up to be interviewed in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the U.S. border south of San Diego.

Beltway Confidential

The asylum loophole is breaking the border; Trump’s new directive is a good start at fixing it

Eddie Scarry · April 30, 2019 2:08 pm

Cristian Mejia, of El Salvador, waits with others in line for food, outside of a shelter for members of the migrant caravan, in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

A fee for asylum won’t buy an immigration fix

Erin Dunne · April 30, 2019 1:50 pm

In this Feb. 21, 2014 file photo, employees at work in the new multibillion-dollar Honda car plant in Celaya, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.

Mexico adopts labor reforms, advancing Trump USMCA trade deal

Sean Higgins · April 30, 2019 11:29 am

"Despite the story the Obama administration is telling, illegal border crossings remain abnormally high," Caucus leader Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas said in a press conference after the tour. (AP File Photo/Eric Gay)

Pentagon to deploy 320 more troops to US-Mexico border

Diana Stancy Correll · April 29, 2019 10:53 pm

President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, speaks at a meeting on immigration with Republican Senators in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

For his own good, Trump should heed Sen. Grassley’s advice on tariffs

Erin Dunne · April 29, 2019 7:08 pm