Tag: Mexico

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

Homeland Security blames publicity by smugglers for wave of immigrants

Spencer Brown · June 24, 2014 7:02 pm

House Speaker John Boehner called on President Obama to send the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to help push back a surge of illegal immigrants -- many of them children -- from Central America. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner: Send the National Guard to secure U.S.-Mexico border

Sean Lengell · June 20, 2014 5:19 pm

U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling the border fence near Naco, Ariz. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Immigration crisis born of inaction

Linda Chavez · June 20, 2014 4:40 pm

Beltway Confidential

Does this Jan. 29, 2014, contract bid request ‘prove’ Obama planned migrant child flood at the border?

Mark Tapscott · June 20, 2014 12:35 pm

US, Mexico consult on unaccompanied minors

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 12:35 am

A makeshift detention center in Nogales, Ariz., is being used as the central clearing station for the latest illegal alien surge. As I've said for two decades, illegal alien amnesties guarantee two things: more illegal immigration and more Democratic voters. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Key to explaining the flood of children crossing the border — Things that don’t just happen, didn’t

Mark Tapscott · June 19, 2014 12:56 pm

The Trejo family from Los Angeles poses outside of the Arena Castelao before the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico in Fortaleza, Brazil, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. A great number of fans that have come to Brazil to cheer for Mexico do not come from Mexico but rather from cities in the U.S. and entering Brazil with American passports. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Many fans of Mexico at World Cup come from US

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · June 19, 2014 6:28 am

People hold portraits of their missing loved ones in front of the morgue of Cosamaloapan, with the hope of finding and identifying the bodies of their missing, from a mass grave which has been recently discovered, in Veracruz , Mexico, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. At least 28 bodies have been recovered from the mass grave in Veracruz, an eastern Mexican state plagued by attacks on migrants and drug cartel violence, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Dozens of bodies found in Mexican mass grave

RODRIGO SOBERANES SANTIN · June 19, 2014 4:06 am

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, Michoacan state Gov. Fausto Vallejo is driven away after attending a meeting at City Hall in Apatzingan, Mexico. Vallejo presented his resignation to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, citing health reasons. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Governor of embattled Mexican state steps down

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 9:01 pm

Sections of the U.S.-Mexico border fence climb a hill near San Diego, Calif. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Examiner Editorial: To end flood of illegal kids, blacklist their parents

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 9:00 pm

$Associated Press freelance photographer Marco Ugarte looks into the camera as a nurse adjusts an ice pack on his face at a hospital in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Ugarte suffered fractured facial bones when he was attacked by masked protesters on Tuesday while he was covering a march honoring students killed in government repression at a 1971 demonstration. Also injured were Paris Martinez of Animal Politico, Luis Castillo of the Reforma newspaper and freelancer Nestor Negrete. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)$ News

Mexico protesters attack journalists, smash glass

Mark Stevenson · June 11, 2014 6:47 pm

Tropical Storm Boris heads toward Mexico’s coast

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 2:56 am