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Column: Trump’s promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy
1 day, 14 hours ago

Column: Trump’s promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy

LA Times  

This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries humming. Can’t get more essential than that.” In the mid-1980s, when he managed cantaloupe fields, federal government pilots would fly small planes over the state’s cropland looking for large crews of workers, he recalled. The pilots would radio information about …

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Trump nominates Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Trump nominates Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection

NPR  

Trump nominates Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection toggle caption Matt York/AP Rodney Scott, former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead Customs and Border Protection, the agency entrusted with managing ports of entry and stopping irregular immigration at U.S. borders. The agency also manages the U.S. Border Patrol and is responsible …

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Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents

LA Times  

During a training session, Border Patrol specialist Mitchell Holmes, right, and Fish and Wildlife Regional Law Enforcement agent Kevin Shinn use skills they learned in the Border Patrol Chaplaincy academy. “That’s why it’s so important we check on each other all the time.” Dealing with death at the border At the most recent chaplain academy, which lasted 2.5 weeks, the …

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Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?
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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?

Associated Press  

DANIA BEACH, Florida — Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. “That’s a really hard thing to deal with, as things tend to flip from one side to the other, and we’re still in the crossfire,” said …

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Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents

Associated Press  

DANIA BEACH, Florida — As immigration remains a hotly contested priority for the Trump administration after playing a decisive role in the deeply polarized election, the Border Patrol agents tasked with enforcing many of its laws are wrestling with growing challenges on and off the job. “The hardest thing is, people … don’t know what we do, and we’ve been …

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Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on U.S.-Mexico border
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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on U.S.-Mexico border

NPR  

Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on U.S.-Mexico border toggle caption Eric Gay/AP NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass, which has become the center of the state's aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings. Texas has …

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'Tremendous shortage': Border Patrol shrunk drastically during Trump's first term
1 month ago

'Tremendous shortage': Border Patrol shrunk drastically during Trump's first term

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump has promised to hire 10,000 more Border Patrol agents as part of a crackdown on immigration. Under Trump, CBP inked a $297 million contract with a company that promised to recruit, vet and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents plus 2,500 officers for related agencies. During the campaign, Trump promised a $10,000 signing bonus and 10% …

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Immigration: Ranchers, vigilantes and police prepare for big change at the Arizona border
1 month ago

Immigration: Ranchers, vigilantes and police prepare for big change at the Arizona border

CNN  

Nogales, Arizona CNN — When the migrants cross the Mexican border and enter Jim and Sue Chilton’s ranch, they go one of two ways. Norma Galeana/CNN Leaving an open door Trump’s border wall had extended five miles along the edge of the land the Chiltons lease from the federal government when President Joe Biden took his oath of office. “The …

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Trump insists Border Patrol union told him they like him more than Abe Lincoln because he’s ‘tougher on the border’
2 months ago

Trump insists Border Patrol union told him they like him more than Abe Lincoln because he’s ‘tougher on the border’

The Independent  

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Nearly one-third of Border Patrol’s cameras along the US-Mexico border ‘don’t work’
2 months, 1 week ago

Nearly one-third of Border Patrol’s cameras along the US-Mexico border ‘don’t work’

The Independent  

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Trump vows to bolster Border Patrol with thousands of new agents
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump vows to bolster Border Patrol with thousands of new agents

Daily Mail  

Donald Trump vowed to bolster the beleaguered Border Patrol with thousands of new agents should he be elected to rectify what he calls the Biden-Harris importation of migrants. Then he promised if he wins on Election Day: ‘The migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our country begins.’ To do that, Trump said he wanted to hire scores of new …

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Allegations Of Abuse From The Texas-Mexico Border
2 months, 1 week ago

Allegations Of Abuse From The Texas-Mexico Border

Huff Post  

The family of four crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico, then walked for hours on U.S. soil between the river and the hulking steel border wall that runs through the area, avoiding the concertina wire strung along the river banks, trying to find a federal Border Patrol agent so they could surrender and pursue an asylum claim in the United …

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One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric
2 months, 4 weeks ago

One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric

Associated Press  

As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. “This is the dream for most Cubans: Come to the United States to work and help your family back home.” 5 a.m. Friday, Aug. 9 Hundreds of miles away near McAllen, Border Patrol agents Christina Smallwood …

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One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric
2 months, 4 weeks ago

One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric

The Independent  

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Inside Trump’s 'Nightmare' Plans For Mass Deportation Camps
3 months, 1 week ago

Inside Trump’s 'Nightmare' Plans For Mass Deportation Camps

Huff Post  

Five years ago, Kris Kobach, Kansas’ former secretary of state, announced on Fox Business Network that, in order to quickly deport undocumented immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, the Trump administration would need “camps.” Or, as he also put it, “processing towns.” The U.S. government owns “thousands of empty mobile home trailers,” Kobach told host Lou Dobbs, and it …

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Border Patrol response to Uvalde school shooting marred by breakdowns and poor training, report says
3 months, 1 week ago

Border Patrol response to Uvalde school shooting marred by breakdowns and poor training, report says

The Independent  

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Federal review of Uvalde shooting finds Border Patrol missteps but does not recommend discipline
3 months, 1 week ago

Federal review of Uvalde shooting finds Border Patrol missteps but does not recommend discipline

Associated Press  

U.S. Border Patrol agents who rushed to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022 failed to establish command and had inadequate training to confront what became one of the nation’s deadliest classroom attacks, according to a federal report released Thursday. The roughly 200-page report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility does not assign overarching …

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Gov. Landry targets 'noncitizens’'in Louisiana
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Gov. Landry targets 'noncitizens’'in Louisiana

Raw Story  

Jeff Landry called a news conference Monday to publicize his signing of an executive order that will monitor “noncitizens” in the state and discourage them from trying to register to vote. Landry referenced illegal immigration several times during the news conference, criticizing Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the party’s presidential nominee, for their border policy. Landry …

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Why California’s surge in immigration is lifting our economy
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Why California’s surge in immigration is lifting our economy

LA Times  

Kamala Harris had no sooner replaced Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee than Donald Trump began bashing her over the number of immigrants coming into the United States, declaring that they had driven countless American workers from their jobs. The surge of international migrants since 2021 — including refugees, asylum-seekers and others entering legally and illegally — has …

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NYC is rocked by cases of Victorian-era disease in migrant center - as critics blame Biden's porous border
5 months ago

NYC is rocked by cases of Victorian-era disease in migrant center - as critics blame Biden's porous border

Daily Mail  

New York City health officials are on high alert after detecting measles at a migrant shelter in Brooklyn. The cases come on the heels of another in a Chicago migrant shelter in May, where a single case led to an outbreak of 57 cases in the city. Asylum seekers are not required to be immunized when they reach the US, …

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How the California border changed after Biden’s order limiting asylum
5 months, 2 weeks ago

How the California border changed after Biden’s order limiting asylum

LA Times  

On a Thursday in early June, a Border Patrol bus pulled up to a San Diego County transit station and 50 migrants got out. The chaotic scene had been the norm at the Iris Avenue Transit Center in San Ysidro ever since the county’s migrant welcome center ran out of money and closed in February and Border Patrol resumed dropping …

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Chinese woman facing charge of trying to smuggle turtles across Vermont lake to Canada
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Chinese woman facing charge of trying to smuggle turtles across Vermont lake to Canada

The Independent  

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Chinese woman facing charge of trying to smuggle turtles across Vermont lake to Canada
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Chinese woman facing charge of trying to smuggle turtles across Vermont lake to Canada

Associated Press  

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents. The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states. Border Patrol agents first spotted Ng …

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Biden says Border Patrol endorsed him. They say different
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden says Border Patrol endorsed him. They say different

The Independent  

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