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By Bernd Debusmann Jr Reporting from El Paso, Texas 12 May 2023 Updated 57 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: What is the Title 42 border policy? Tens of thousands of people are waiting to cross into the US from Mexico, officials say, after […]
A contentious United States policy that has allowed authorities to turn away most asylum seekers at the border with Mexico has officially ended, as President Joe Biden’s administration readies for an expected influx of arrivals. The public health order known as Title 42, which formally expired at 11:59pm on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday), had […]
The day before Title 42 was scheduled to end, hundreds of migrants gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas. Some of them cut a hole through a fence and made it to onto U.S. soil before uniformed agents resealed the barricade. The majority retreated and bided their time. Come midnight when […]
On April 10, the federal national emergency ended early. This emergency order, which was separate from the federal public health emergency that’s ending this week, was originally set to also expire on May 11 — but a bipartisan congressional resolution moved to bring this order to a close ahead of schedule. Late last week, on […]
Texas National Guard troops set up razor wire in El Paso, Texas. Officials are anticipating a wave of immigrants on Thursday night, with the end of the U.S. government’s COVID-era Title 42 policy. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Moore/Getty Images Texas National Guard troops set up razor wire in El Paso, Texas. […]
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) – Thousands of migrants are crossing into the United States this week before a new regulation takes effect that could bar most who cross illegally from seeking asylum, while others gathered on the Mexico side amid confusion about U.S. policy. The U.S. rolled out a regulation on Wednesday that presumes most […]
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, refugees from the threatened nation started showing up at Mexico’s border with the United States. Roughly 1,000 Ukrainians a day flew to Tijuana on tourist visas, desperate to reach U.S. soil. The volume was overwhelming the nation’s busiest border crossing in San Diego. In Tijuana, thousands of Ukrainians slept in […]
MEXICO CITY >> Mexico’s navy has suspended a search for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat off Mexico’s northern Pacific coast, the U.S Coast Guard said Wednesday. A Coast Guard statement said that Mexican forces and U.S. assets had searched about 200,000 square nautical miles, an area larger than California, and had […]
A full house that featured the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, members of the original 1988 Broadway cast, theater industry bigwigs and Phans decked out in masks and capes gathered at the Majestic Theater on Sunday for the final performance of “The Phantom of the Opera.” The sumptuous musical, with its soaring score and gothic drama, […]
Former Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Jaffee, one of the magazine’s longest contributors, had delighted millions of kids with such fixtures as the Fold-In and “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” With its cheeky, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, Mad was essential reading for teens and preteens […]