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(The Center Square) – Federal agents made history by seizing the largest volume of precursors used to produce methamphetamine after interdicting two shipments from two ships on the high seas. U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents working overseas seized more than 300,000 kilograms (nearly 700,000 pounds) from two ships that departed […]
In July, Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton drove to the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec where he’d arranged to pick up his two sisters coming from Miami, but the reunion didn’t happen as planned. The sisters, who fled Haiti last year due to violence, had hoped to settle in the U.S., but when President […]
A new “golden triangle” of fentanyl and gun trafficking between Mexico and the US ties together the homicide and overdose crises of the two countries, according to a a new study. The triangle spans Baja California, Sinaloa and Sonora – the three states where almost all fentanyl seizures in Mexico take place – and connects […]
Patty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state. Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) […]
Social media users were quick to make fun of the Trump administration’s seemingly ineffective plan to deter immigrants from climbing the border wall Kristi Noem initially declared the entire 2,000-mile border wall would be painted, then later said the paint would only be used on new sections of wall(Image: Gaby Velasquez / El Paso Times […]
NEED TO KNOW President Donald Trump’s latest plan to secure the U.S.-Mexico border is to paint his wall black DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the plan on Tuesday, saying that the black paint is intended to make the wall hotter and therefore harder to climb The “Big, Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress in July included […]
The U.S.-Mexico border wall is about to change color. The Trump administration confirmed this week that the entire structure will be painted black in an attempt to make it too hot for migrants to climb. Officials argue it is a matter of deterrence and preservation. Critics say it is inhumane and a massive waste of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration — and she credited President Trump with the idea. Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall […]
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SANTA TERESA, N.M. (NewsNation) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that the U.S.-Mexico border wall will be painted black at President Donald Trump’s specific request, saying the darker color will make the barrier even more difficult to climb in hot weather. “There will be more added to it as far as technology, cameras, […]