“I want to build the wall, I supported direct appropriations for it and fought for it — but we have to evaluate what this does to the military, what it affects, where and how.” President ...
Immigration advocates are concerned new asylum procedures at the U.S.-Mexico border are denying migrants their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. A plan to send Mexican nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. to ...
“Reporting on the database also revealed that the U.S. government coordinated with Mexican authorities to monitor these individuals.” The American Civil Liberties Union is suing on behalf of journalists it says were detained and spied ...
“As I was paying my respects to our forever Chairman, his staff told me that in his final hours he signed subpoenas to USCIS and ICE” – Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Rep. Elijah Cummings. Rep. ...
The federal government admitted an additional 1,250 kids have been separated at the U.S. border, though the ACLU suggests that number may be as high as 2,000. On Friday, a Health and Human Services official ...
Trump scores a ‘Big VICTORY’ as a Supreme Court decision on border wall funding is split down party lines in his favor. The Supreme Court granted President Trump a significant victory on Friday, ruling that ...
“I came here seeking protection and because I had no other choice. And I was accused of being in a gang, when I was fleeing the gangs, all based on evidence I’ve never seen.” Immigration ...
“The policies we have at the border and this militarization, building fences, they didn’t start with Trump. This is a lot of the policies have continued from the Obama administration much earlier… Bush and Clinton.” ...
Two Texas House committees have been meeting for hours to discuss the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Local officials say federal agencies are stretched thin. Some Texas lawmakers say their concern is conditions for migrants ...
“People have to speak up and they have to take action,” Castro said of his decision to release footage of women detained in an El Paso border facility. “This was about shining a light on ...
“Since when did the Problem Solvers Caucus become the Child Abuse Caucus?” Progressives slammed House Speaker Pelosi on Thursday for abandoning child protection requirements on border funding and caving to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ...
“We cannot continue to throw money at a dysfunctional system.” Both chambers of Congress passed legislation to provide billions in aid for the growing border crisis, but House Democrats are concerned the Senate-passed version does ...
“The Trump administration just ignored bedrock environmental and public health laws to plow a disastrous border wall through protected, spectacular wildlands.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday that it is waiving 41 ...
The practice of blood testing asylum seekers will deter false family asylum cases, or so the Trump administration hopes. The Trump administration will phase in DNA testing of families applying for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico ...
Citizen Truth Reporter Jenna Mulligan is traveling across the U.S.-Mexico border and reporting on immigration issues. In the latest video, Jenna visits the Benedictine Monastery in Tucson, AZ. The church recently converted into a migrant ...
“Our immigration system has reached a breaking point as we continue to see an overwhelming surge of migrants, with more than 100,000 arriving at our border in March alone.” In a presidential memorandum signed Monday, ...
The crossing was captured by patrol cameras, and Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Station intercepted the migrants on U.S. soil. U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 360 Central American migrants crossing the ...
Kevin McAleenan seems to have the support of many congressional Democrats, and the experience in immigration law enforcement that has earned him respect throughout the department. Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen ...
Guzmán’s trial is a telenovela-style explainer on why a wall is unlikely to stop the lucrative U.S.-Mexico drug trade. (The Conversation, by Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong) The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ...
“DOD is transitioning its support at the southwestern border from hardening ports of entry to mobile surveillance and detection.” The Pentagon has approved an official request to keep active duty troops at the Mexico border ...
Will the departure of another migrant caravan heading for the US border affect negotiations over funding for the US border wall? Another migrant caravan is on its way to the United States. The caravan is coming ...
(FactCheck) On the day he met with congressional leaders to discuss the budget stalemate, President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading claims about the Southwest border and the wall he wants to build: Trump ...
During the week of Dec. 16, Californian Congressmembers Nanette Barragán and Jimmy Gomez camped out in the cold at the Tijuana-San Diego border to help facilitate the safe passage of Honduran immigrants into the US. ...
“As repeatedly stated by a series of U.N. human rights bodies, detention of children based on their migratory status is a violation of international law.” (Common Dreams) A day after the 7-year-old girl’s small body returned ...
The brutal murder of two teenage members of the migrant caravan is a reminder of the violence that migrants are trying to escape. Two teenage members of the migrant caravan that traveled from Central America to ...
“The narrative and characters in ‘Icebox’ are inspired by so many personal stories that were told to me through years of research and outreach,” – director Daniel Sawka. “Icebox” is a timely new film about one Honduran boy’s quest ...
Q: During the Obama administration, did Border Patrol agents use tear gas to control crowds of migrants during incidents at the U.S.-Mexico border? A: Yes, and the gas was also used by administrations prior to his, news ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested for the Department of Defense (DoD) to keep 4,000 troops on the U.S.-Mexico border. The DHS wants the Pentagon to keep the troops on the border from ...
The changing of the guard in Mexico brings increased scrutiny as thousands of immigrants sit in shelters on the border between the US and Mexico awaiting their fate. Nearly 100 more of the Central American ...
Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy. (ProPublica) ...
“Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime,” says Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after U.S. Border agents fire tear gas into Mexico. (Common Dreams) As legal experts and human rights advocates ...
Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan, who is stationed in Mexico, traveled to meet and interview the migrant caravan first-hand as it arrived in Mexico City. This is the first of her reports. After spending five ...
Thanks to an overnight bus ride by Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan, Citizen Truth is reporting live from Mexico City where the migrant caravan carrying thousands of migrants from Central America began to arrive yesterday ...
Members of a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. filed a lawsuit suing for their right to declare asylum in the U.S. Six migrants in the caravan traveling from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border filed ...
The troop deployment would be the first time that any U.S. president has turned to active duty forces of this magnitude to counter approaching refugees to the U.S. border. On Tuesday, U.S. Northern Command chief ...
Several recent incidents have led US security authorities to believe Mexico’s drug cartels may be turning to armed drones to attack targets impeding their operations. While cartels have used drones for surveillance and drug trafficking, armed ...
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