Tag Archives: immigration

Biden, Texas feud over anti-illegal immigration law as migrants rush border: What to know

Just as illegal immigrants rushed the southern border in El Paso, Texas, the Biden administration is locked in a months-long legal battle with Gov. Greg Abbott over a controversial anti-illegal immigration law. What is S.B. 4? Senate Bill 4 was passed by the Texas legislature and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in December. The law allows police to arrest those …

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Southern border in El Paso experiencing migrant backlog due to slow state transportation

EL PASO, Texas – While crossings have slightly slowed down at the southern border in El Paso, the city is trying to cope with housing a large number of migrants in the area for longer than expected. On Friday, March 1st, the City of El Paso’s online migrant dashboard showed 1,135 encounters for the previous day. On Dec. 19, for …

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65 migrants found buried in mass grave in Libyan desert

The U.N.’s migration agency expressed alarm Friday over the discovery of a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants in the deserts of western Libya. Earlier this week, Libya’s criminal investigations authority reported the grave had been found in the Shuayrif region, 220 miles south of the capital, Tripoli. On its Facebook page, it said 65 bodies …

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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit challenging DC noncitizen voting law

A federal judge on Thursday tossed a conservative legal group’s lawsuit against a controversial Washington, D.C., law that allows noncitizens — including illegal immigrants and foreign embassy staff members — to vote in municipal elections. In a 12-page opinion, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the plaintiffs, a group of U.S. citizen voters represented by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), …

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Border Patrol chief suggests 'jail time,' tougher 'consequences' to stop illegal US-Mexico border crossings

The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol is suggesting “jail time” and tougher “consequences” to help America crack down on the number of migrants crossing illegally over the U.S.-Mexico border. Jason Owens made the remark Thursday to CBS News as a large group of illegal immigrants were captured on video bursting through razor wire and surging towards a border wall …

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Migrant encounters at southern border hit new February record high

The number of migrant encounters at the southern border for February hit a new high for the month this year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) figures released on Friday reveal, reversing a sharp drop in numbers in January. There were 189,922 migrant encounters along the border in February. That’s higher than the 156,000 in the same month in 2023. The …

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Mayor Johnson touts Chicago being more 'open and quite accommodating' to migrants than other blue cities

Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson touted Chicago as being more “open and quite accommodating” to illegal immigrants compared to other blue cities while admitting that its position is “unsustainable.” During a press conference on Wednesday, Johnson was asked about the city’s temporary shelter policy for migrants being bussed to Chicago from the southern border, stressing the reality of “restraints” of city …

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Karine Jean-Pierre bashed for suggesting migrants storming border is Abbott's responsibility: 'Beyond belief'

Social media users ripped White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for suggesting on Friday that viral video showing illegal immigrants rushing the Texas National Guard at the southern border should be Gov. Greg Abbott’s concern, not President Biden’s. When asked if Biden had seen or weighed in on the “dramatic” video of the migrant surge, Jean-Pierre replied, “I mean look, …

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Republican senators introduce bill to block migrants from using Border Patrol app as ID at TSA checkpoints

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans introduced a bill on Friday cracking down on the federal government’s use of a controversial mobile app to identify illegal immigrants traveling via airplane to the United States. The CBP One app was first introduced during the Trump administration for cross-border transit at ports, but it was expanded last year by the Biden administration to …

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Cyprus proposal to repatriate Syrian refugees to 'safe zones' gains steam in EU

A Cyprus government proposal to enable repatriations of Syrian refugees by designating specific areas within the country as safe zones is “gaining ground” among the island nation’s fellow European Union member states, the Cypriot interior minister said Friday. Minister Constantinos Ioannou said after talks with European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas that it’s the “conviction of several states that the …

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