Tag: Mexico

The Trump administration is considered splitting up families who enter the United States illegally from Mexico. The proposed plan means families could face separation because parents would be held at detention facilities prior to being deported and their children would remain under protective custody at juvenile shelters. (Tanya Moutzalias/The Ann Arbor News-MLive.com Detroit via AP)

Trump administration weighs policy that could split up families who enter US illegally

Diana Stancy Correll · December 22, 2017 2:22 pm

Viviana Andazola Marquez said that her father was removed from a detention facility on Friday morning, flown to Texas and then Arizona, and then deported to Mexico by bus. (via Facebook)

Yale campaign fails to save student’s father from deportation

Isaiah Denby · December 19, 2017 8:36 pm

"The president has made it clear that my number one priority as secretary of Homeland Security is to protect America from all threats." ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen takes up Trump’s immigration battle

Anna Giaritelli · December 17, 2017 3:00 pm

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.,argues that leaving the deal would harm the economy and lead to increased immigration. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jeff Flake urges White House not to pull out of NAFTA

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2017 8:44 pm

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has pressed for more information about alcohol poisonings at Mexican resorts and the State Department's handling of complaints. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Washington Secrets

Probe opened into State’s bungling of tainted booze death in Mexico

Paul Bedard · December 14, 2017 2:13 pm

The Department of Homeland Security secretary said the security fencing in the Rio Grande zone will see "major improvements" over the next year because its security has become a priority for the department due to increased illegal immigration there. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

National Security

DHS: Rio Grande Valley will see ‘major improvements’ to border wall in 2018

Anna Giaritelli · December 14, 2017 1:41 pm

Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal in effect told his U.S. counterparts that if the talks fall apart and President Trump follows through with earlier threats to pull the U.S. out of the deal, Mexico would be able to find other trading partners. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Mexico looks to Europe as NAFTA talks struggle

Sean Higgins · December 13, 2017 11:20 pm

"[Customs and Border Protection] is testing the prototypes against the techniques used by smugglers on the southwest border to circumvent [the] current border barrier," Carlos Diaz, CBP Southwest Branch chief, told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Elliott Spagat)

Border Patrol test prototypes for Trump’s border wall with jackhammers, saws

Naomi Lim · December 6, 2017 11:25 pm

Congressional investigators posed as first-time buyers of fentanyl and found six online sellers able to easily ship the drug from overseas to the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Amount of fentanyl seized at border last year was 742 times the 2013 rate

Anna Giaritelli · December 5, 2017 4:53 pm

Border officials see 20 percent drop in children trying to cross the border under Trump

Anna Giaritelli · December 5, 2017 4:52 pm

In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas. The Department of Homeland Security agency reported 310,531 apprehensions and 216,370 inadmissible people caught at various parts of the Mexico and Canada borders, as well as ports of entry from Oct. 1, 2016 through Sept. 30, 2017.

Border arrests of illegal immigrants hits lowest level since 1971

Anna Giaritelli · December 5, 2017 3:01 pm

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate will be removed from the country by U.S. immigration officials in accordance with a 2015 arrest warrant. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Arrest warrant issued for illegal immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle murder trial

Katie Leach · December 1, 2017 11:43 pm