Immigration

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Lone Star state takes control of critical border area as National Guard increases presence

Armed National Guardsmen defending the Lone Star state have taken control of city property at a critical border point, according to the Texas Military Department

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House Republicans inch closer to impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over southwest border crisis

If Mayorkas is convicted, he will be one of the few Cabinet officials to be removed from his position throughout the history of the U.S. executive branch, and the first in about 150 years to face removal.

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NYC sends Brooklyn high school students home for remote learning to shelter 2,000 migrants amid extreme weather

Two thousand migrants are currently being transported from Floyd Bennett field, an airfield in Jamaica Bay, to James Madison High School in Brooklyn where they will shelter in the high school’s gymnasium

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Denver to spend $180M on migrants in 2024, mayor calls it 'unsustainable'

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said the city had 150 buses carrying migrants arrive in December and that the city was the closest major metropolitan area from Texas

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U.S. and Mexico hold transnational cooperative meeting to tackle migrant smugglers

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met this week with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Mexico City and said the two sides came to “important agreements”

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Border Patrol struggles as nearly 250,000 people flood southern border in one month

U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered a new record number of illegal border crossers in November as the agency pleaded for help from Congress

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Texas Gov. Abbott pushes back on Chicago mayor blaming him as first flight arrives from border

The Chicago mayor complained as 10,000 people illegally entered one area of Texas, inundating Border Patrol and state and local law enforcement

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott preempts federal immigration power, outlaws illegal border crossings

The controversial move may however be headed for the courts since the Supreme Court has made clear that immigration law is solely vested within the federal government and not the states

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DHS report says a border wall is the most effective method to stop illegal immigration

According to the 2017 report, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), a “pedestrian fence,” popularized by President Donald Trump as a “border wall,” was in fact the best way to halt illegal immigration

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Melania Trump welcomes migrants as new citizens during National Archives naturalization ceremony

Her appearance was one of the first since she left the White House in January 2021 with her husband, President Donald Trump