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Border arrests are little changed in December, ending Biden’s term at lowest level
1 week, 4 days ago

Border arrests are little changed in December, ending Biden’s term at lowest level

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier, a U.S. official said Monday, hovering near the lowest levels since July 2020 and indicating that an anticipated surge ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president hasn’t happened. December will mark the sixth straight month that arrests for illegal crossings …

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The 'Latino vote' is a myth, as my Southwest road trip shows
2 months, 3 weeks ago

The 'Latino vote' is a myth, as my Southwest road trip shows

LA Times  

I’ve done the drive from Orange County to the United States-Mexico border so many times that it’s as easy to describe as my backyard. Slow down at the Border Patrol station in San Clemente, even though all the agents are on the northbound side and I’m an American citizen — because you just never know. “And now that the border …

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California heat has immigration activists bracing for a humanitarian crisis
5 months, 4 weeks ago

California heat has immigration activists bracing for a humanitarian crisis

NPR  

California heat has immigration activists bracing for a humanitarian crisis toggle caption Ash Ponders for NPR SAN YSIDRO MOUNTAINS, Calif. — It’s dawn at the foot of Otay Mountain, and the heat is already nauseating. toggle caption Ash Ponders for NPR This summer, temperatures in California have soared to record-breaking highs, with some parts approaching the hottest ever recorded on …

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Migrants from around the world have made this stretch of California the top place to enter the U.S. illegally
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Migrants from around the world have made this stretch of California the top place to enter the U.S. illegally

LA Times  

At dawn came a dozen men, women and children from Nepal. World & Nation Migrants play ‘the asylum lottery’ on controversial U.S. government app Depending on whom you ask, the federal immigration app CBP One is a solution to the border crisis, a human rights violation or a ploy to let anyone into the U.S. Driving the numbers is a …

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Six killed in helicopter crash in San Bernardino County near Nevada border
11 months ago

Six killed in helicopter crash in San Bernardino County near Nevada border

LA Times  

An aerial view shows a mark indicating the location of the helicopter crash in San Bernardino County on Friday night. Six people were killed Friday night in a helicopter crash in San Bernardino County near the Nevada border, authorities said. All six people onboard the chartered flight died when the craft went down in what witnesses described as “rain and …

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Opinion: The open-air camps outside San Diego are a healthcare crisis for migrants
1 year ago

Opinion: The open-air camps outside San Diego are a healthcare crisis for migrants

LA Times  

Asylum seekers from Colombia huddle against the cold and rain at a makeshift camp while waiting to be transported by the U.S. Border Patrol in Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif., in November. A handful of uninhabitable places around the small town of Jacumba Hot Springs have become open-air detention sites for hundreds of asylum seekers. Migrants have been told by Border …

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Record numbers of migrants head to U.S. border, in fresh test for President Biden
1 year, 3 months ago

Record numbers of migrants head to U.S. border, in fresh test for President Biden

The Hindu  

Thousands of migrants have crossed into the United States in recent days, from California to Texas, with many more still arriving by bus and cargo trains to Mexican border towns on the heels of record migration flows further south. “We have to do something” In Tijuana on September 20 evening, on the other side of the border from San Diego, …

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How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet
2 years ago

How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — Show up at a border crossing with Mexico and ask a U.S. official for asylum? “I absolutely wish that we had more information to share with folks,” said Kate Clark, senior director for immigration services at Jewish Family Service of San Diego, which has facilitated travel within the United States for more than 110,000 migrants released from …

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US official: Migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint
2 years, 6 months ago

US official: Migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint

Associated Press  

SAN ANTONIO — The tractor-trailer at the center of a human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead had passed through an inland U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint with migrants inside the sweltering rig earlier in its journey, a U.S. official said Thursday. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that Border Patrol agents may stop vehicles at inland checkpoints for brief …

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Plan to lift ban on asylum seekers worries border city mayor
2 years, 9 months ago

Plan to lift ban on asylum seekers worries border city mayor

Associated Press  

SAN LUIS, Ariz. — An Arizona border city’s mayor has voiced concerns how his community will be affected by the Biden administration’s plan to lift the ban on asylum-seekers at the U.S-Mexico border on public health grounds, San Luis Mayor Gerardo Sanchez foresees security risks and an inability to provide shelter to asylum seekers who presumably will gather in San …

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Border authorities find 52 reptiles hidden in man’s clothing
2 years, 10 months ago

Border authorities find 52 reptiles hidden in man’s clothing

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A man who tried to slither past U.S. border agents in California had 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing, authorities said Tuesday. The man was driving a truck when he arrived at the San Ysidro border crossing with Mexico on Feb. 25 and was pulled out for additional inspection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said …

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Caravan of 900 migrants sets off from Honduras towards U.S. border
4 years, 3 months ago

Caravan of 900 migrants sets off from Honduras towards U.S. border

Daily Mail  

A caravan of at least 900 migrants have gathered in Honduras to begin a 2,000-mile walk towards the United States, just weeks after neighboring Guatemala reopened its borders following months of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The Hondurans began walking Wednesday night in the northwestern city of San Pedro Sula, testing a well-trod migration route now in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border
4 years, 10 months ago

Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — In the latest twist on a key Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court said it will prevent the government from making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings starting next week unless the Supreme Court steps in sooner. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Wednesday that it would only block the “Remain …

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Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order
4 years, 10 months ago

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A Trump administration immigration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts was blocked and then reinstated by a court in the matter of hours, creating chaos at border crossings, courtrooms and legal offices. ACLU attorney Judy Rabinovitz called the suspension of Friday’s order “a temporary step.” “We will …

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Holding-cell stats raise questions about Trump asylum policy
4 years, 10 months ago

Holding-cell stats raise questions about Trump asylum policy

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — Many U.S. holding cells along the Mexican border were less than half-full, even empty, during an unprecedented surge of asylum-seeking families from Central America, newly unsealed court documents show, raising questions about the Trump administration’s claims that it had to make people wait in Mexico because it didn’t have the means to accommodate them. The spread of …

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Border agency watchdog looking into caravan database
5 years, 10 months ago

Border agency watchdog looking into caravan database

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. government kept a database on journalists, activists, organizers and “instigators” during an investigation into last year’s migrant caravan, infuriating civil liberties and media groups who called it a blatant violation of free speech rights. “The appearance that CBP is targeting journalists, lawyers, and advocates, and particularly those who work on immigration matters or report on …

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Official: Asylum seekers to wait in Mexico starting Friday
5 years, 11 months ago

Official: Asylum seekers to wait in Mexico starting Friday

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration on Friday will start forcing some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, launching what could become one of the more significant changes to the immigration system in years. San Ysidro is the nation’s busiest crossing and the choice of asylum seekers who arrived to …

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U.S. Is Rolling Out Its 'Remain In Mexico' Policy On Central American Asylum-Seekers
5 years, 11 months ago

U.S. Is Rolling Out Its 'Remain In Mexico' Policy On Central American Asylum-Seekers

NPR  

U.S. Is Rolling Out Its 'Remain In Mexico' Policy On Central American Asylum-Seekers Enlarge this image toggle caption Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images Updated Jan. 25 at 9:05 a.m. Sponsor Message Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen first announced the plans for this "historic" policy, called the "Migration Protection Protocols," in a memo issued in late December. "Catch and release" …

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Border clash was at least 2nd use of tear gas since November
6 years ago

Border clash was at least 2nd use of tear gas since November

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — Just after people raised their glasses to ring in the New Year, about 150 migrants gathered at a section of border wall in Tijuana to try to cross into the United States, many of them asylum seekers fed up with the long wait to have their claims processed. Instead of offering the asylum seekers protection, “border agents …

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