Hundreds of migrants from Central America gathered near the U.S. border in Tijuana are planning to return home. They blame one of the caravan organizers, Pueblos Sin Fronteras, for allegedly misleading them into joining the trek with false promises of easy asylum in the United States. The group denies the accusations.
California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom revealed on Thursday that he will call back the California National Guard from the border when he is sworn into office in January.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says it is “imperative” that “no one” from a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 Central American migrants be allowed to enter the United States.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are detailing the border-wall extensions they will build if Congress provides the $5 billion sought by President Donald Trump in 2019.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday expressed support for allocating absolutely “$0” for President Donald Trump’s “racist border wall.”
Caravan organizers allowed women and children to lead Sunday’s march on the border wall in San Ysidro, shortly before some tried to break through the barrier, according to at least one migrant.
A group of women from the Central American migrant caravan are calling for a hunger strike, asking for faster processing by the U.S. and Mexican authorities. The group plans to demonstrate outside the offices of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute in Tijuana.
Mexican officials stated that more than one-third of the 6,000 caravan migrants currently living in the border city of Tijuana, Baja California, are being treated for health-related issues. Some are being treated for infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and chickenpox.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos on Wednesday evening said that the caravan migrants seeking asylum are becoming more “intelligent” and sneaking into the United States illegally because they have discovered how porous the U.S.-Mexico border actually is.
Actress Anne Hathaway expressed alarm over the situation at the southern border, claiming in an Instagram post that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents “gassed” migrant children as hundreds of caravan members rushed toward San Diego port of entry.
Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” the panel discussed President Donald Trump threatening a government shutdown over funding for a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Whoopi Goldberg said, “There’s a December 7 government shutdown looming, and the guy in the
Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector in California arrested an MS-13 member who claimed he traveled through Mexico with a migrant caravan. The agents made the arrest after he illegally crossed the border from Mexico into California.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), who is running to be the House Democratic Caucus Chair on Wednesday, again called for United Nations inspectors to go the U.S.-Mexico border after border patrol agents on Sunday fired tear gas at migrants who were pelting them with rocks.
Central American migrants in the caravan held a press conference in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday and demanded that the United States speed up its asylum process to allow more migrants into the country.
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stated, “We will be prepared for any additional migrants.” She also said “illegal or violent entry” into the US won’t be allowed. Nielsen
Almost 400 migrants carried other people’s children or youths, or lied about their adult age, to get over the border in the nine months prior to September 30, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) compared the migrant caravan members seeking to enter America illegally to Jews fleeing the Holocaust, which can only mean she is comparing Central America to Nazi Germany.
Mexican immigration authorities announced the deportation of more than 11,000 Central American migrants in the country illegally since mid-October. The figure includes more than 1,900 whom were parts of the various migrant caravans.
Mexican immigration authorities initiated the deportation process for 98 Central American caravan migrants who recently rushed an international port of entry in Tijuana, triggering crowd control tactics by U.S. authorities. The Mexican government claims some migrants tried to attack police officers.
During a segment on MSNBC that aired on Monday, reporter Gadi Schwartz admitted that most migrants in the U.S.-Mexican border city of Tijuana who traveled with the Central American caravan were not women and children. Instead, he said they were men,
Under the Obama Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) law enforcement officials, including Border Patrol agents, utilized tear gas against migrants at or near the border at least 80 times between FY2012 and early FY2017.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews conceded on Monday evening that most of the Central American migrants in the caravan are not eligible for asylum because they are economic migrants.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said on Monday that America has a responsibility to “easily absorb” the caravan migrants and claimed it can do so “without significant economic consequences.”
Seven in ten Mexicans reportedly have a negative view of Central American migrants in the caravan while majorities oppose giving migrants work visas and support tougher enforcement measures, according to a comprehensive poll conducted by one of Mexico’s biggest newspapers, El Universal.
Democrats and other critics mocked President Donald Trump after he activated U.S. troops in late October to help reinforce the southwest border after concerns that thousands of Central American migrants moving in caravans towards the United States would try to illegally rush across.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera said he was “ashamed” of the way migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border are being treated. Discussing border patrol agents using tear gas, Rivera said. “This goes to my
According to the New York Times, the number of migrants in the caravan “could reach more than 10,000,” officials estimate, revealing the number of Hispanic babies aborted in the United States to have outnumbered the estimated number of migrants by about seven to one.
Pro-American immigration reformers are petitioning the White House to request that President Trump replace current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border is expected to hit the highest level in a decade next year as border-crossings surged to record levels last month.
“We defend the borders of other nations, but we don’t defend our own borders properly!” Trump cried. “But that’s all changed since we got elected.”
The cartel violence in Tijuana continues with 16 homicides registered over the weekend, bringing the total for 2018 to at least 2,242.
Central Americans with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 migrants are admitting, en masse, that they are arriving to the United States through the southern border with ineligible asylum claims.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Central American migrant woman who nearly fell to her death from the international border wall. She and her two children fell from the wall as she attempted to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico and landed on a piece of rebar that pierced her buttocks.
After the media repeatedly assured us it would never happen, hundreds and hundreds of migrants tried to invade our country Sunday.
Forty-two caravan migrants broke into the United and were arrested on Sunday, while organizers pushed women and children to the front of the melee, a top border patrol agent told CNN.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that the US is “causing” children to face tear gas at the border, and the Trump administration’s policies “caused the anxiety at the border.” Cardin said, “President Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted at Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that she should visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum to educate herself about the differences between Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and the migrant caravan trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
A collection of Central American caravan migrants in Tijuana and some still camped in Mexico City decided to return home–citing fear of violent clashes with authorities. Several claim they were promised an easy journey with minimal resistance from U.S. officials.
Monday on MSNBC, host Andrea Mitchell said President Donald Trump was “demonizing” migrants by calling them “a caravan” with “500 murderers in the midst.” Partial transcript as follows: PHILIP RUCKER: Yeah, it’s a horrible humanitarian crisis and it has been
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said it was “legitimate” to worry about President Donald Trump using the military at the U.S.-Mexico border because the president has “strong authoritarian tendencies.”
