Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 05:45:35 +0000

Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico

Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States.

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Border ’emergency’: The problem Trump can’t fix

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 05:52:36 +0000

Mexico's federal police stand guard at the US-Mexico border fence as US President Donald Trump visits Calexico, California, as seen from Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 5, 2019. - President Donald Trump flew Friday to visit newly built fencing on the Mexican border, even as he retreated from a threat to shut the frontier over what he says is an out-of-control influx of migrants and drugs. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)

The resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen underscored the failure of President Trump to halt uncontrolled immigration.

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California governor says El Salvador trip a counter to Trump

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 04:43:32 +0000

California governor says El Salvador trip a counter to Trump

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador  – California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday his visit to El Salvador serves as a counter-narrative to what he called President Donald Trump’s demoralizing and toxic rhetoric about Central American migrants.

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Trump to seek another $8.6 billion for border wall

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:13:41 +0000

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 19, 2018 a Customs and Border Protection officer asks travelers for their visas as seen through barriers set by US authorities at San Ysidro port of Entry, at the US-Mexico border, in preparation for the arrival of a Central American migrants' caravan moving towards the United States, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico - US authorities created a secret database of journalists and activists linked to a caravan of Central Americans who tried to enter the US last year from Mexico, NBC reported on March 6, 2019. In some cases authorities flagged their passports for alerts, the San Diego, California affiliate of NBC reported. It cited documents leaked to it by a source in the Department of Homeland Security who requested not to be named. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP) trump

US President Donald Trump is seeking $8.6 billion in fresh funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border, likely triggering another fight with Congress.

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US House to vote on blocking Trump emergency

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:53:06 +0000

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: Members of the U.S. House Rules Committee - (L-R) Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), Rep. Rob Woodall (R-GA), ranking member Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), committee chairman Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Alcee Hastings (D- FL) - listen during a House Rules Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol February 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. The committee is meeting to consider a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that seeks to allow President Trump to shift spending to fund sections of a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP

US House lawmakers on Tuesday are expected to pass a Democratic measure annulling President Donald Trump’s declared emergency on the southern border, an effort that appeared to earn growing support among Senate Republicans.

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Women will surround Trump at State of the Union address

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 22:30:06 +0000

Women will surround Trump at State of the Union address

Pelosi behind and above. Female immigrants, gazing down from the balcony. A black woman who ran a close race for governor of Georgia, rebutting.

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US students in ‘MAGA’ hats mock Native American after rally

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:21:34 +0000

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington. (Survival Media Agency via AP)

A diocese in Kentucky apologized Saturday after videos emerged showing students from a Catholic boys’ high school mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial after a rally in Washington.

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At Mexican border, Trump moves closer to emergency declaration

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 03:23:02 +0000

At Mexican border, Trump moves closer to emergency declaration

Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency.

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