A poll released Wednesday finds Team Biden curtailing the use of federal law Title 42 to prevent foreigners from bringing COVID-19 into the U.S. is “this administration’s most unpopular decision so far.” To be sure, ending the Trump administration’s use of the 1940s law as a public health matter during the pandemic was unpopular among […]
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Biden administration prepares for potential mass migration at US-Mexico border
The Biden administration is preparing for the potential of mass migration to the US-Mexico border when a Trump-era pandemic emergency rule ends, according to three sources familiar with discussions. Border authorities have been relying on a public health order, known as Title 42, to turn away migrants at the US-Mexico border since March 2020, but […]
New Pew research shows 1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. are migrants.
The breadth of what it means to be a Black American is widening, according to new analysis of the latest migration statistics. The Pew Research Center combed through the U.S. Census data and found the percentage of the Black population who had migrated to the United States had more than tripled over the last 40 […]
Drug cartels empowered by Biden’s border policies and Mexico’s failed cooperation
Mexican drug cartels are surging and flush with cash as the Biden administration struggles to establish a new enforcement approach along the U.S. southern border — a situation compounded by the fumbling policies of Mexico’s left-leaning government and waves of Chinese-made fentanyl flowing into the organized criminal networks in recent years. Mexican President Andres Manuel […]
Migrant Caravan Picking Up Steam As It Heads Toward US Border
Migrant caravans are re-emerging, despite Mexico’s efforts to thwart throngs of people moving together to seek entry into the United States. A group of 400 is making the trek through Mexico, leaving Tapachula in the southern region of the country Saturday, the New York Post reported. That group has emerged as the Mexican National Guard […]
10 Dead After Van Carrying Illegal Immigrants Crashes
A van full of suspected illegal immigrants crashed in South Texas, killing as many as 10 people and injuring at least 13, authorities said Wednesday. The incident occurred on U.S. 281 in Encino, about 55 miles north of the border town of McAllen. The van had 30 people inside and veered off the road and […]
President Of Mexico Heaps Praise Onto Kamala After Meeting
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this week that in-person meetings on the migration crisis with Vice President Kamala Harris went so well that he called her “president.” “It’s a completely new phase,” López Obrador said during a news conference about the meetings on Wednesday, according to Reuters. “It was such a good meeting […]
Trump Considering A Pardon For Sheriff Joe Arpaio
President Donald Trump may soon issue a pardon for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. “I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio,” Trump said Sunday in an interview with Fox News from his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is on a working vacation. Trump told Fox News he could issue […]
Hawaii’n Judge Eases Travel Ban Restrictions Again
HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday expanded the list of family relationships needed by people seeking new visas from six mostly Muslim countries to avoid President Donald Trump’s travel ban. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ordered the government not to enforce the ban on grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews […]
Trump Travel Ban Loses In Appeals Court Again
A federal appeals court has dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries. The Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday largely upheld a lower court ruling barring the administration from suspending visas from those countries. The Trump administration previously revised the executive order to better […]
Sanctuary Cities To Lose Federal Funding
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday threatened to strip some “sanctuary cities” of coveted Justice Department grants for state and local law enforcement, saying those places that did not comply with a particular federal law on immigration would not be eligible for money. “I urge our nation’s states and cities to consider carefully the harm […]
New Immigration Order Signed By Trump
The Trump administration on Monday rolled out the second edition of a controversial immigration executive order, which suspends immigration into the United States from now only six predominantly Muslim countries. Citizens from the affected countries — Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya — will be subjected to a 90-day ban on travel to the […]