Tag Archives: immigration

Outraged resident warns what $70M migrant funding will do to sanctuary city

A Chicago resident who protested against another tranche of funding going toward migrant care in the Windy City is warning that the city risks going bankrupt if it continues — days after the city council green lit the additional $70 million despite furious opposition. “The main objection is that there seems to be no end in sight,” P Rae Easley …

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Choppers, dogs and towers: Inside the Fed's fight against illegal immigrant intruders

SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — As Border Patrol agents work to combat the movement of illegal immigrants across the southern border in the El Paso Sector, they say a multi-layered enforcement system that has been expanded in recent years and combines the use of barriers with technology and other forms of enforcement has helped thwart cartel smuggling operations and nab illegal …

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Meet the American who invented the gas-powered tractor, entrepreneur John Froelich, helped feed the world

A small-town American farmboy gave the fight against food insecurity real traction. His name was John Froelich. And he helped feed the world in ways that Bob Geldof, Boy George and a galaxy of other celebrities connected to the holiday hit “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” — including global community efforts to feed the world much, much later in the …

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Surging GOP Senate candidate unleashes on 'both parties' during border visit: 'Failing the American people'

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday visited the southern border in McAllen, Texas, as he campaigns for the open Maryland Senate seat — and as the ongoing crisis at the southern border remains a top political issue. Hogan met with law enforcement and public safety officials and told Fox News in an exclusive statement that he visited the border …

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19 bodies recovered off the coast of Tunisia after migrants attempted to cross the Mediterranean to Europe

The bodies of 19 people were recovered Tuesday off the coast of Tunisia, one of the primary points of departure for those seeking to traverse the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. The Tunisian coast guard said in a statement that it had recovered the bodies near the port cities of Mahdia and Sfax, the country’s second largest city where migrants have …

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‘Political theater’: Leaked document exposes frustration inside key government security agency

EXCLUSIVE: A rebranding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s investigative unit, purportedly due to “undue toxicity” that ICE faces from some on the left, is apparently causing some frustration within the agency — with a top official in its separate branch promising employees that it will avoid “political theater.” Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is part of ICE and conducts …

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Fairfax County, Va., repeatedly released Honduran charged with sex crimes, ignored ICE detainer request: feds

Fairfax County, Virginia, ignored a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request for a Honduran national charged with sex crimes against a child in Virginia, ICE said Wednesday. Immigration officials arrested the 30-year-old Honduran national at his residence in Bladensburg, Maryland, on April 15, after Fairfax County twice released him. The agency did not provide his identity in the …

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UK approached Botswana to take ‘unwanted immigrants,’ African country's foreign minister says

Botswana’s foreign minister said his country had been approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their “unwanted immigrants” but declined the request. Lemogang Kwape’s comments in a telephone interview with South African television channel Newzroom Afrika on Tuesday came hours after the British Parliament finally passed legislation allowing a contentious plan to send some migrants to …

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Foreign students could face harsher penalties than suspension for anti-Israel rioting: DHS

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday confirmed that foreign students could potentially face deportation if they are suspended from their courses while on a student visa — just as anti-Israel protests have engulfed Columbia University and other American colleges. With anti-Israel protests taking place at Columbia and college campuses across the country, which have included antisemitic rhetoric and …

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Rwanda's Hope Hostel, which once housed genocide survivors, ready to take in migrants from UK

Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled and controversial bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East African country. There is even a place ready and waiting for the migrants — a refurbished …

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