Category: Border Control
By KEVIN FREKING and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) 09/19 — President Donald Trump signed his name on a newly constructed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall,
By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press, YUMA, Ariz. (AP) 09/15 — On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River,
By CEDAR ATTANASIO and JULIE WATSON, Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) 09/12 — A new level of despair spread among tens of thousands of migrants waiting on the Mexican border to seek refuge in the U.S.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 09/12 — The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
By MARIA VERZA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) 09/06 — Under threat of crippling U.S. tariffs, Mexico said Friday it had reduced the flow of migrants arriving at its northern border by 56% in three months.
By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 08/30 — A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015 in a case that sparked a national immigration debate.
By JULIE WATSON, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) 07/26 — On the surface, it seemed like a simple task: Drive to a spot a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border,
By AMY TAXIN and ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press 07/25 – A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop denying asylum to anyone who transits through another country to reach the U.S.
By COLLEEN LONG and SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 07/23 — An immigration enforcement operation that President Donald Trump said was part of an effort to deport “millions”
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) 07/18 — A Guatemalan man who apparently entered the U.S. illegally after being deported twice has been charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children.
WASHINGTON (AP) 07/18 — The Latest on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): 7:45 p.m. The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the Trump administration’s new policy banning most asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border is being rolled out as a pilot program.
By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) 07/14 — As a nationwide immigration crackdown loomed, religious leaders across the country used their pulpits Sunday to quell concerns in immigrant communities and spring into action to help those potentially threatened by the operation.
WASHINGTON (AP) 07/15 — The Latest on the Trump administration’s new rule for Central American migrants seeking U.S. asylum (all times local): 9:50 a.m.Read more »
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 07/15 — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president’s battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) 07/08 — Mexican police, soldiers and National Guard are raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants,
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) 06/29 — A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California,Read more »
By ANNALISA CAMILLI and FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) 06/29 — The German captain of a humanitarian rescue ship with 40 asylum-seekers aboard rammed an Italian border police motorboat as she docked at a tiny Mediterranean island Saturday in defiance of Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister and was immediately arrested as jeering onlookers shouted “handcuffs,
By MARCO UGARTE, Associated Press METAPA, Mexico (AP) 05/05 — Some 200 military police, immigration agents and federal police blocked the advance of about 1,000 Central American migrants who were walking north along a southern Mexico highway on Wednesday,
EL PASO, Texas (AP) 05/31 — The Latest on the large numbers of immigrants at the southern border(all times local):
6:40 p.m.
Border officials in Texas say a group of 116 Africans was arrested Thursday after wading through the Rio Grande to enter the United States.