The government of India is stepping in to help local manufacturers develop alternatives to Chinese imports, and is officially asking consumers to boycott Chinese products in retaliation for the border skirmish that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead last week.
Indians eager to boycott Chinese goods after this week’s deadly border clash between Indian and Chinese forces are running into the reality that Chinese imports have muscled out all competition for many popular items.
A report at the Hindustan Times on Thursday claimed China is conducting a sustained cyberattack against India as part of the showdown between the two nations that left dozens of soldiers dead in a bloody hand-to-hand battle along the disputed border in Ladakh earlier this week.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has been curiously quiet about the conflict between Chinese and Indian troops along their contested border.
A senior propagandist for the Communist Party of China on Tuesday claimed that Beijing is hiding its casualties from Monday night’s hand-to-hand battle with Indian forces over a disputed border to avoid enraging the public. India has reported at least 20 fatalities so far.
Calls are growing in India for a boycott of Chinese products after the latest in a string of violent clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along the contested border left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents carried out a 36-hour search operation leading to the rescue of a Mexican man who had been lost in the Texas desert for five days.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted two human smuggling attempts at an interior immigration checkpoint during a 24-hour period. The smugglers packed 33 migrants into the cargo area of two tractor-trailers.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 12 migrants and seized a small quantity of Xanax at an immigration checkpoint located about 80 miles north of the Texas/Mexico border. The arrests came in two separate incidents last Thursday.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two previously deported criminal aliens after they illegally re-entered the United States on Wednesday. The arrests came in separate incidents.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously convicted and deported child sex offender after he illegally crossed into New Mexico. The criminal alien received two felony convictions in 2008 from a court in Colorado.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted a human smuggling attempt involving 25 migrants in a tractor-trailer rig. The interdiction occurred at the Interstate 35 checkpoint located between Laredo and San Antonio, Texas.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler after he allegedly attempted to circumvent an interior immigration checkpoint in Southern California. The agents also arrested a group of migrants with the smuggler.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an injured migrant woman after human smugglers abandoned her. Laredo Sector officials report a significant increase in the number of rescues this fiscal year despite an overall dramatic drop in illegal border crossings due to the Coronavirus.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two human smugglers who were allegedly armed with an AR-15 rifle. The agents also arrested three Mexican nationals who entered the U.S. illegally.
The number of migrants rescued in the Laredo Sector jumped 57 percent this fiscal year despite the lower overall number of illegal border crossings due to Coronavirus fears and policies.
A Honduran illegal immigrant is charged in federal court for allegedly assaulting Border Patrol agents after he crossed near Brownsville, Texas, on April 22. The man fought multiple Border Patrol agents as the attempted to arrest him for illegally crossing the border from Mexico.
Union leaders for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers along the U.S.-Mexico border expressed concerns about the risk of illness and death to its members and the general public due to changes in policies previously used to enable social distancing at ports of entry during the coronavirus pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted an expedited environmental waiver to move the construction of 15-miles of new border wall system segments forward in South Texas. The project consists of five non-contiguous segments in areas where no physical barrier currently exist.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant attempting to illegally cross the Rio Grande from Mexico. After clearing the man medically, he was returned to Mexico under Trump Administration Coronavirus protocols.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an alleged drug smuggler and seized more than 43 pounds of methamphetamine at an interior checkpoint. Officials placed the value of the drugs at nearly $100,000.
Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector say cartel-connected human smugglers are not deterred by the Coronavirus pandemic as they continue to push migrants into the United States. Over the Easter weekend, agents in the sector disrupted two smuggling attempts.
Laredo Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $45,000 in U.S. cash that an alleged smuggler attempted to take into Mexico. The seizure occurred on the international bridge from Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The apprehension of migrants who illegally cross the southwest border with Mexico by Border Patrol agents decreased slightly in March. The March apprehensions exceed those in January.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a large group of migrants who were locked inside a tractor-trailer. The agents disrupted the human smuggling attempt at the Interstate 35 immigration checkpoint located between Laredo and San Antonio.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant locked in the trunk of a car and a stolen vehicle in two separate incidents at immigration checkpoints.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 40 migrants who were locked inside a trailer after they entered the U.S. The agents found the migrants at the Interstate 35 Immigration Checkpoint in South Texas.
A federal task force in Southern California recently discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel running from Mexico to the United States. The task force seized significant quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and marijuana during a search of the connected San Diego-area warehouse.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents and other first responders teamed up to rescue a group of Mexican migrants who were abandoned in inclement conditions in the Otay Mountains of Southern California. The group of five illegal aliens included a minor.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued five migrants from the Rio Grande as they attempted to illegally cross from Mexico into Texas.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an injured 15-year-old girl who Mexican cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned in the middle of the Rio Grande.
Mexican cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned a pregnant Guatemalan woman at a border wall near Clint, Texas, on Saturday night and encouraged her to climb the 20-foot barrier. She fell and landed on her back, causing injuries that eventually took her life and that of her unborn child.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents stopped a collection of 90 migrants from being smuggled into the U.S. interior. The cartel-connected smugglers locked 90 migrants, including five unaccompanied juveniles, inside a tractor-trailer.
El Centro Sector Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a human smuggler after she allegedly stashed a migrant inside the rear seat of her vehicle.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously convicted murderer in connection to an alleged human smuggling attempt. The man allegedly attempted to sneak three Mexican nationals through an interior immigration checkpoint.
A foreign national allegedly attacked a Laredo Sector Border Patrol agent during a human smuggling attempt on a Texas ranch. Agents arrested the Mexican man and charged him with multiple federal felony offenses.
The apprehension of migrant families illegally crossing the border in February fell by 92 percent from the peak of the 2019 humanitarian and border security crisis in May. Under programs put in place by the Trump Administration last year, the release of migrants into the U.S. is also down 87 percent, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Mexican migrant after he injured his leg in a canyon past the California border with Mexico. Human smugglers abandoned the man after he suffered a “severe leg injury” and left him to die.
Rio Grande Valley Sector officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than $5 million in liquid methamphetamine and $200K in cash at Texas ports of entry.
Greece sent dozens of naval vessels to patrol the Greek islands after Turkey announced it would allow all Syrian migrants to head to Europe.
