Mexico Border Wall

The Migrant Protections Protocol is forcing over 60,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico instead of the US for asylum hearings.Migrants are now stuck in Mexico indefinitely, as the Trump administration has shut the border to nonessential travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.Gloria, a migrant who said she was kidnapped…

On March 3, Brian Kolfage tried to reach the U.S. government — through Instagram. The triple-amputee Air Force veteran, who’s best known for running the crowd-funded border wall project “We Build The Wall,” had found a new line of work: Medical supply middleman. Before the sudden change, Kolfage had spent…

From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Published 3:35 AM EDT Apr 8, 2020AlabamaMontgomery: The state on Monday reported a significant jump in the number of COVID-19 patients, reaching more than 2,000 confirmed cases and more than 53 reported deaths. The state doubled its number of reported cases in just…

Pictured: Caravan of Love walk in support of immigrants and refugees in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2017. (Fibonacci Blue)A panel of academic experts took to the new, socially-distanced podium—Zoom—to present the facts behind the painful, personal experiences affecting countless people around the globe faced with and detained by borders. That means…

“It’s reprehensible,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates more immigration restrictions. “Specifically importing workers into jobs unemployed Americans would be doing is absurd.” A Department of Homeland Security official said the administration’s moves were surprising given the “soaring unemployment rate.” A record-shattering 6.6…

By VOA News April 01, 2020 U.S. federal agents seized a large cache of drugs from a long tunnel used by smugglers to move them across the U.S.-Mexico border. The 600-meter long tunnel, which ran under a series of warehouses from the northern Mexican border town of Tijuana to the…

The drug bust uncovered 3,000 pounds of marijuana, 1,300 pounds of cocaine, 86 pounds of meth, and 17 pounds of heroin.San Diego Tunnel Task Force/Department of Homeland Security via Associated PressAuthorities carried out a drug bust worth nearly $30 million from an underground tunnel at the U.S.-Mexico border. History has…

You are here: Home / Immigration / Drug Smugglers Tunnel Under Border Wall April 1, 2020 at 3:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment “A large haul of drugs, including opioids, methamphetamine and cocaine, being smuggled from Mexico to California was seized from a cross-border tunnel equipped with…

AJO, Arizona — Motels, mobile home camps, and Airbnbs in this small Arizona border town are full up. Work crews stream into eateries for takeout orders. License plates on trucks parked outside the crowded laundromat come from as far away as Alaska.Around the country, some states have cut back on…

Dairon Elisondo Rojas, a doctor who works for Global Response Management and is also an asylum-seeker from Cuba, warns those in the refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, about the dangers of the novel coronavirus and offers tips about preventing its spread on March 18. Ivan Flores for Foreign Policy Dispatch…