Mexico Border Wall

The US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Arizona (AP)A pastor who runs shelters in Mexico at the US border, has accused American border patrol agents of sending injured migrants back without providing them medical support, calling it a “new low” for the country.…

In a much-anticipated move, the Biden administration on Friday announced it would start allowing some asylum-seekers, forced to stay in Mexico under a 2019 Trump-era policy, to come to the United States while their cases are processed. Immigrant justice advocates and asylum-seekers have long fought to abolish the “remain in…

The filmmakers of “At the Ready” — a documentary following students training to become Border Patrol officers — know how timely their film is, but they didn’t want to let recent politics shape the doc entirely. “At the Ready” also takes a look at how the Trump Administration changed policies…

© Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump returns after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border wall, in Texas By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways on Saturday with the two lead lawyers working on his defense for his Senate impeachment trial, a source familiar with the…

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued a wave of pardons Tuesday night, using the final hours of his presidency to grant clemency to 143 people, including former top White House aide Steve Bannon, according to a list made public by the White House on Wednesday morning. Bannon — Trump's former…

Los Angeles United States President Donald Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday just a week before he is due to leave office to tout what he views as one of his biggest accomplishments: the partial construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. Trump visited the wall in…

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1of20A pathway cleared by explosives to make way for border wall construction separates Mexico, right, and the USA, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Guadalupe Canyon, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique…

For enslaved Black Americans contemplating escape before the Civil War, the North increasingly looked like a bad option. Though Northern states had abolished slavery by the early nineteenth century, free Blacks were denied the right to vote, had limited employment options, and endured legal segregation. Much of the Midwest restricted…