U.S. border holding center to reopen after 32 migrants contract flu
U.S. authorities say 32 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center on the Mexican border that was temporarily closed to stop the outbreak. It's unclear if anyone ill came in contact with a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who was held at the ...
'Trumpism fueling the xenophobic fire': Florida braces for influx of immigrants flown in from border
Officials in South Florida say they are frantically preparing for an influx of immigrants being sent by the federal government as the number camped along the U.S. Mexico border grows rapidly. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said Thursday that officials in Broward and neighboring Palm ...
Trump to pitch plan to make U.S. immigration more merit-based and border ports tighter
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday will outline an immigration plan aimed at hardening border ports of entry and making the legal migration system based more on a proficiency in English and employment, senior administration officials said. Trump's immigration proposal, the product largely of senior ...
A South Carolina Republican senator is proposing to make it harder for Central Americans to win asylum in the U.S. He's urging President Donald Trump to cut an immigration deal with Democrats that would include that idea. Sen. Lindsey Graham's plan to staunch a recent ...
Photos capture near-drowning of migrants on U.S.-Mexico border and rescue by agents
New photos capture the dramatic rescue of a 7-year-old boy from Honduras who nearly drowned in the river separating the U.S. and Mexico until Border Patrol agents rescued him. The San Antonio Express-News reported Wednesday on the rescue of four adults and five children who ...
'Off the charts': Number of migrants nabbed at U.S. southern border tops 100,000 again
The number of migrants apprehended at the southern border topped 100,000 for the second month in a row, as the Trump administration manages an ever increasing number of Central American families streaming to the U.S. According to Homeland Security figures, there were 109,144 migrants encountered ...
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the U.S.-Mexico border as the administration contends with a surge of Central American migrant families, with the bulk of the funding for shelter and care. The number of families ...
Judge gives U.S. government six months to identify children separated from parents at border
The federal government has six months to identify potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border early in President Donald Trump's term, a judge said Thursday. Trump administration officials said they had a goal of six months but opposed ...
Truckers and stores on U.S.-Mexico border struggle as Trump closure threat looms
Trucks inched through traffic and some stores reported fewer customers in U.S.-Mexico border towns on Wednesday as staffing shortages tied to a surge in asylum seekers slowed checkpoints and threats of the border closing scared away shoppers. U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to ...
President Donald Trump again threatened on Wednesday to close the U.S. border with Mexico, this time calling on Congress to take steps immediately to deal with immigration and security loopholes that he says are creating a national emergency. "Congress must get together and immediately eliminate ...
As many as 2,000 U.S. inspectors who screen cargo and vehicles at ports of entry along the Mexican border may be reassigned to help handle the surge of Central American families coming across, the Trump administration said Monday. The temporary reassignments, up from the current ...
Trump team heightens effort to return asylum seekers to Mexico
The Trump administration is intensifying measures to curb the flow of Central American asylum seekers crossing into the United States from Mexico, officials said on Monday, including sending more people back to Mexico to wait for their asylum claims to be heard by U.S. ...
