Migrant
By Sumi Somaskanda & Naomi Choy Smith in San Diego 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, A surge of illegal border crossings has fuelled US political debate On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the city reopened Wadsworth last year to shelter hundreds of migrants, without seeking community input, it added insult to injury. Across Chicago, Black residents […]
Washington — The number of migrants apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border dipped in March, internal government statistics obtained by CBS News show, a surprising trend that American officials say mainly stems from an immigration crackdown by the Mexican government. Border Patrol agents apprehended over 137,000 migrants who crossed the U.S. southern border unlawfully in March, […]
US News By Jennie Taer Published March 29, 2024 Updated March 29, 2024, 7:29 p.m. ET Illegal ‘migrant influencer’ Leonel Moreno, who mocked America on social media in several viral videos, has been nabbed by federal immigration authorities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) fugitive operations officers arrested Moreno in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday and he […]
Six weeks after a young asylum-seeker from El Salvador crossed into the U.S. from Mexico, she realized she was carrying a rape-related pregnancy. The woman — who like the other women interviewed for this article aren’t being identified for security reasons — said she was sexually assaulted by the Mexican cartel that was holding her […]
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said migrant smugglers are taking advantage of vulnerabilities at the southern border and the importance U.S. officials place on responding to humanitarian issues. In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Owens said smugglers “absolutely are” setting the rules of engagement at the southern border, […]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A dizzying volley of courtroom maneuvers over a Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally sowed confusion at the nation’s border with Mexico on Wednesday as sheriffs, police chiefs and migrants waited for direction. Texas faced skeptical questioning during a hearing […]
(The Center Square) – Military experts argue the use of “migrant warfare” by Mexican cartels has created the border crisis, which they say is not about immigration. The warning comes as the greatest number of foreign nationals have illegally entered the southwest and northern borders, including suspected . . .
Sasabe, Arizona — Migrants from all corners of the globe come here to cross into the U.S. through breaches or gaps in the border wall, which covers miles of a rugged landscape featuring steep hillsides, dirt roads, cows, cacti and desert shrubs. While the towering Trump-era wall is by far the most visible man-made object, […]
As Sean Hannity was interviewing the founder of the Guardian Angels, a New York City-based vigilante group known for targeting immigrants, an off-screen disturbance took place and the camera panned to show group members confronting an unidentified man, pushing him to the sidewalk and placing him in a headlock. The bizarre incident played out Tuesday […]