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Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection
President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.
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Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?
Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....
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Nearly 200 families separated by US-Mexico border reunite briefly in annual event
Nearly 200 families have gathered along a stretch of the United States-Mexico border for heartfelt but brief reunions with loved ones they had not seen for years because they live in opposite countries.
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Ex-CBP officer sentenced for taking bribes to let drugs across US-Mexico border
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer convicted of taking bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced to over 23 years in prison.
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Mexican president blames the US for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blamed the United States in part for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week.
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US border policy spurred migrant camps hundreds of miles away in Mexico's capital
U.S. immigration policy has shifted the migrant landscape in Mexico City, far from the shared border. The teeming capital that was merely a transit point for some migrants has now become a temporary destination.
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Border arrests are expected to rise slightly in August but are hovering near 4-year lows
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July.
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US expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north
The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s southernmost states bordering Guatemala will be able to apply for appointments. Previously, they had to be in central or northern Mexico.
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Man indicted on smuggling charges after 53 migrants die in a trailer in Texas
U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of a Guatemalan national who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas.
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$5 million worth of meth found in shipments of celery and watermelon at California customs checkpoint
More than 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine were found hidden in shipments of celery and watermelon during two separate incidents in Otay Mesa near the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced this week.
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Border Patrol reports arrests are down 25% since Biden announced new asylum restrictions
Preliminary federal government figures show the number of people arrested by Border Patrol agents fell by 25% since President Joe Biden announced new rules restricting asylum access two weeks ago.
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Some nationalities escape Biden's sweeping asylum ban because deportation flights are scarce
Lack of resources, diplomatic limitations and logistical hurdles make it difficult for the Biden administration to impose its sweeping measure on a large scale.
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How Biden's new order to restrict asylum at the border is supposed to work
President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a halt to asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico when illegal entries reach a threshold deemed excessive.
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Biden signs executive order to curb illegal border crossings
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday temporarily restricting migrants who unlawfully cross the southern border from seeking asylum.
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Biden is expected to sign an executive action Tuesday that would temporarily shut the border when numbers surge
Daily encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border are currently averaging more than 4,000, which suggests a shutdown could go into effect immediately.
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The Biden administration has a plan to shut down the border. But it needs Mexico's help.
The Biden administration is finalizing details of a new executive action that would let the president temporarily shut the southern border to migrants if necessary, and it is in talks with Mexican leaders to get their crucial buy-in before proceeding, according to multiple officials familiar with the negotiations.