The Trump administration was barred by a U.S. judge from forcing Central Americans seeking asylum from persecution to wait in Mexico for months or even years while their applications are being processed. The ruling Monday is the latest setback for President Donald Trump in his anti-immigration crusade. His policies have been repeatedly stymied by judges […]
It would take “something dramatic” in the coming days to persuade President Trump not to close the U.S.-Mexico border, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday, and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said the president’s threat “certainly isn’t a bluff.” The two senior staffers, appearing separately on Sunday morning talk shows, also […]
The United States will return the first group of migrants seeking U.S. asylum to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, a Mexican government spokesman said on Thursday. In a major policy change, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Dec. 20 it would send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back […]
As a drug crisis has moved Kensington to the center of a debate on how best to treat addiction, we’ve largely failed to see the connection to the crisis taking place on America’s southern border. Right now in the heart of Kensington, a throng of homeless heroin addicts is gathered beneath a bridge on Emerald […]
President Trump said Thursday that he hopes the military troops being deployed to the United States’ southwestern border will not have to fire upon any migrants attempting to enter the country through Mexico, but warned that if any rocks are thrown from across the border “we will consider that a firearm. “They want to throw […]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Monday that the ‘Tsunami-type’ flooding that killed at least three people was the worst flooding ever to hit Texas. In addition, severe weather has killed 13 people in Mexico, 3 people in Oklahoma and 12 people are still missing. Let’s keep our brothers and sisters in our prayers as […]
