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South Texas Border Patrol sectors saw big drops in migrant …
Oct 23, 2024 · McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The three Border Patrol sectors in South Texas saw huge drops in migrant encounters in Fiscal Year 2024 from Fiscal 2023, according to new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The Rio Grande Valley Sector, which includes McAllen and Brownsville, saw a decrease of 60 percent in migrants encountered between legal ports of entry in Fiscal Year 2024.
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.
AMLO blames US for narco war in Sinaloa | Border Report
Sep 20, 2024 · EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Twelve days before his term in office concludes, the president of Mexico ripped into the U.S. government for allegedly making an under-the-table deal that landed two Sinaloa cartel leaders in American jails and, he says, set off a narco-war south of the border. “They made a deal and did not inform us, according to our (Attorney General).
Border Report Live: Where illegal immigration is trending up
Sep 27, 2024 · EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — The number of arrests for illegal border crossings has fallen from an all-time high to some of the Biden administration’s lowest this fiscal year alone. Yet some areas of the border are seeing encounters going up. In this week’s episode of “Border Report Live” (Fridays at 11 a.m. ET), host Chip Brewster and Border Report correspondents Sandra Sanchez ...
Explainer: How immigrants end up on ICE’s non-detained docket
Oct 1, 2024 · Recent reports that over 435,000 convicted criminals are on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's non-detained docket (NDD) -- meaning they are not detained by the agency while they await immigration proceedings -- has spurred much criticism and confusion. Border Report spoke with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, as well as reached out to the ...
State of the Rio Grande: Officials discuss new sources of water …
Nov 21, 2024 · Part of the treaty also forms new working groups to study the current flows of the Rio Grande, as well as environmental concerns. “This is a real opportunity to engage with the irrigators, to engage with cities, to engage with the NGO community within this projects work groups,” U.S. IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner said.
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.
72 migrants found in storage shed, Border Patrol says
Sep 26, 2024 · EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Smugglers used a storage shed with limited airflow and small windows to stash 72 migrants, said U.S. Border Patrol officials, who also arrested a man wanted by Interpol for murder.. Acting on a tip about a possible migrant stash house, federal, state and local authorities served a warrant on the property on Overland Avenue on Tuesday in South El Paso.
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,” …