Tag: Mexico

Canada saw a significant spike in the number of asylum-seekers in January and February, putting the country on track to surpass total annual levels for the past five years, according to immigration statistics released Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Canada on track to see 40 percent hike in asylum-seekers by year’s end

Anna Giaritelli · March 21, 2017 2:25 am

An RCMP officer warns a man to cross at the legal border crossing or he will be arrested at the border from New York into Canada on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 in Hemmingford, Quebec. America's neighbor to the north has been increasingly seen as a haven for some immigrants who are willing to chance a walk across the border in sometimes dangerous cold to get there. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada sees major uptick in Mexican immigration

Anna Giaritelli · March 18, 2017 1:43 am

Border agents apprehended four Chinese nationals allegedly attempting to cross illegally from Tijuana, Mexico into the U.S. by way of San Ysidro Port of Entry near San Diego, Calif., on Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Four Chinese nationals caught crossing from Mexico to US in trunk

Anna Giaritelli · March 17, 2017 12:03 am

Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney said he's not surprised Democrats are threatening to shut down the government in April over President Trump's request for $1.5 billion to build a wall along the southern border. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Mulvaney ‘not surprised’ by Democratic threats to shut down government over wall funding

Kyle Feldscher · March 16, 2017 12:34 pm

Lorena Lopez stands in the doorway at her aunt's house as she poses for a portrait in Lynn, Mass. Lopez, a student at Lynn English High School, crossed the border from Guatemala without her family almost four years ago. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Census: Half of kids in top 700 school systems from immigrant homes, 30% illegally

Paul Bedard · March 16, 2017 8:34 am

Perceptions of an incoming president's likely policies can shape the behavior of many; perceptions of an outgoing president's policies, not so much. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Perceptions are that Trump’s policies are working

Michael Barone · March 16, 2017 4:01 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Trump: ‘Everybody wants to build our wall’

Anna Giaritelli · March 16, 2017 12:51 am

Human smugglers abandoned a four-year-old girl after being spotted by border agents near border town Mt. Signal, Calif., early Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Border Patrol rescues 4-year-old whom human smugglers abandoned

Anna Giaritelli · March 14, 2017 11:12 pm

The Wisconsin Republican's plan relies on funding from civil asset forfeiture. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

National Security

Jim Sensenbrenner: Make Mexican cartels pay for the wall

Joel Gehrke · March 14, 2017 6:34 pm

Whatever the explanation, Trump's tough talk seems to have made those plants cheaper to buy with U.S. dollars. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Despite Trump’s attacks, his enemies in the private sector are on the rise

Bruce Yandle · March 14, 2017 4:06 pm

In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, a lone cigarette rests on a fence post as Honduran migrant and Mexican workers sort and pack used plastic bottles to be compacted and sold to a recycling plant, at a rural dump on the outskirts of Tenosique, Tabasco state, Mexico. More than 8,000 immigrants have asked the Mexican government to grant them asylum this year. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Illegals fear Trump, stopping in Mexico to seek asylum

Paul Bedard · March 13, 2017 1:09 pm

"It's a very, very complicated situation," Wilbur Ross said. "So it's very hard to paint just with one big broad brush." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Administration still has not decided how to change NAFTA

Anna Giaritelli · March 12, 2017 8:37 pm