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Fear of mass deportations spreads in immigrant communities
Nov 19, 2024 · EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – After her first child was born in El Paso, Mercedes began the long process to legally migrate to the United States.. The years passed and the Juarez, Mexico, resident saw her son grow and develop an interest in baseball. One Sunday when her son was playing with others in a public park, several armed men arrived in trucks and shot a man in the crowd dead.
ICE released over 435,000 migrants with criminal convictions, data ...
Sep 27, 2024 · The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a Texas border lawmaker this week that 435,000 undocumented migrants with criminal convictions have been released by the agency on its non-detained docket (NDD) to cities within the United States.
‘Back to back’ seizures net $1.4M in drugs, weapons at South …
Nov 19, 2024 · U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in three days seized over $1.4 million worth of cocaine and 1,000 rounds of ammunition and weapons in three recent incidents at South Texas ports of entry, officials said Tuesday
Border Report Live: Trump’s deportation plan a massive undertaking
Nov 22, 2024 · EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Lawmakers at all levels of government have started to either push back or pitch in on President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to carry out mass deportation once he takes office.. The latest show of support came from the state of Texas, where the head of the Land Commission offered up a recently purchased border ranch so the incoming Trump administration could ...
New ‘4/5 Bridge’ conditionally approved for South Texas border
Oct 4, 2024 · Biden signed the presidential permit on Thursday. It is subject to certain environmental conditions but allows the project to start. His approval comes nearly four months after the president issued construction and expansion permits for three other international bridges in South Texas.. Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina called the signing of the 4/5 Bridge “a moment that will be etched in the ...
Texas border communities again safer from violent crimes, new …
Oct 2, 2024 · The FBI’s 2023 Uniform Crime Report shows Texas border cities had a much lower murder rate in Fiscal Year 2023 than other cities, like New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio, according to the data supplied by Cuellar’s office.
Mired in delays, US ambassador to Mexico pushes for new border …
Nov 20, 2024 · SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The Otay Mesa East Port of Entry was supposed to be operational by the end of this year, but the site where it’s to be built is covered with tumbleweeds and dirt and the project is mired in delays and bureaucracy.“It will be such a change agent and an opportunity to bring these regions together,” …
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Illegal crossings down 70% along US-Mexico border
Nov 20, 2024 · EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — The number of migrants arrested for crossing the border illegally in October rose slightly from the previous month, but remains among the lowest in years, according to newly released data.