Mexico Us Border

• Mexico town blocks road from U.S. border over fear of coronavirus outbreaks

  The mayor of Sonoyta, Jose Ramos Arzate, issued a statement Saturday "inviting U.S. tourists not to visit Mexico."

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  Jul 5, 2020
  
• Opponents sue as Trump’s new asylum rules go into effect

  The policy went into effect Tuesday but drew two swift lawsuits from immigrant advocacy groups in federal courts, one in San Francisco and one in Washington, D.C.

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  Jul 16, 2019
  
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• Migrant apprehensions along U.S.-Mexico border drop 28 per cent in June

  There were 104,344 people encountered in June, down from 144,278 the month before. May saw a record high number of families cross.

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  Jul 9, 2019
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• Migrants held in ‘horrifying’ conditions at Texas border facility: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

  First-term Democratic Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter after leaving the main border patrol station in El Paso that she had seen women in cells with no water who had been told to drink out of toilets.

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  Jul 1, 2019
• Trump signs $4.6B aid package to bolster migrant care at U.S.-Mexico border

  Many Democratic lawmakers were hoping for more. They wanted stronger protections for how migrants are treated at holding facilities and to make it easier for lawmakers to make snap visits.

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  Jul 1, 2019
• ‘This is terrifying’: Immigrant parents frantic over 7-year-old daughter in U.S. government custody

  Almost a week after an inconsolable 7-year-old girl called her dad, sobbing, from inside a Texas Border Patrol station, the father says he still hasn’t been able to see her.

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  Jun 26, 2019
• U.S. House passes $4.5B emergency funding bill for migrant care crisis

  It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease Tuesday a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package.

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  Jun 25, 2019
• 15,000 soldiers deployed to halt U.S.-bound migration: Mexico

  Mexico is trying to curb a surge of migrants from third countries crossing its territory in order to reach the United States, under the threat of tariffs on its exports by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has made tightening border security a priority.

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  Jun 24, 2019
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• 4 deaths near U.S.-Mexico border may be a preview of the summer

  Two babies, a toddler and a woman were found dead near the U.S.-Mexican border, overcome by the sweltering heat in a glimpse of what could lie ahead this summer.

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  Jun 24, 2019
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• Republican senators split from Trump, oppose Mexico tariff threat

  Republicans are deeply concerned that Trump’s proposed 5 per cent tariffs on all imports from Mexico would spike U.S. consumers’ costs, harm the economy and imperil a major pending US-Mexico-Canada trade deal.

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  Jun 4, 2019