Tag: Border

Court jeopardizes a third of 500-mile border barrier promised by Trump

Anna Giaritelli · December 13, 2019 5:00 am

FILE - In this July 18, 2018 file photo, a Honduran man carries his 3-year-old son as his daughter and other son follow to a transport vehicle after being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in San Luis, Ariz. Border arrests figures for August 2018, are the latest reminder of how crossings have shifted over the last decade from predominantly Mexican men to Central American families and children. The number of family arrivals reached 15,955, a sharp increase from July that Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said was one of the highest on record.

372,000 born to immigrants every year, 33,000 to ‘tourists’

Paul Bedard · December 12, 2019 4:13 am

Record 3 million illegal immigrants living freely in the country awaiting hearings

Anna Giaritelli · December 11, 2019 11:39 pm

An immigrant who entered the United States illegally is deported on a flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston.

Trump continues to deport fewer illegal immigrants than Obama

Anna Giaritelli · December 11, 2019 7:54 pm

A U.S. Border Patrol boat navigates the Rio Grande near where the bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto MartÃnez RamÃrez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria were found, in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas.

Deadly crossing: Bodies of 300 illegal immigrants found on US-Mexico border during fiscal 2019

Anna Giaritelli · December 11, 2019 12:00 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Federal judge blocks billions in Pentagon funding from paying for border wall

Tim Pearce · December 11, 2019 12:55 am

Rep. Ross Spano examining the border.

Rep. Ross Spano: We can delay a budget, but we can’t delay a crisis

Rep. Ross Spano · December 10, 2019 5:00 am

House Republican calls for Marshall Plan for Central America to reduce migration

Anna Giaritelli · December 9, 2019 10:29 pm

Illegal border crossings drop for sixth straight month after Trump pressures Mexico

Anna Giaritelli · December 9, 2019 6:07 pm

Illegal immigrant detainees walk with their hands clasped behind their backs along a line painted on a walkway inside the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La. in September.

Arrests and removals of illegal immigrants up under Trump, a ‘majority’ convicts

Paul Bedard · December 9, 2019 3:56 pm

Amilitary police officer wearing the insignia of Mexico's new National Guard detains Guatemalan migrants to keep them from crossing last June from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas.

Trump wants Mexico to stop more illegal immigrants, ‘itchy trigger finger on tariffs’

Paul Bedard · December 6, 2019 2:44 pm

A McAllen K-9 police officer walks past rebar that will make up the border wall south of Donna, Texas.

More than 100 miles of ‘new’ border wall expected by year-end

Paul Bedard · December 5, 2019 2:00 pm