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Kamala Harris' plane forced to return over`technical issue'
Jun 07, 2021 03:26US Vice President Kamala Harris' plane had to return to the base it had left off about 30 minutes earlier over what was described as a “technical issue.”
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Texas Gov. declares disaster in state over border crisis
Jun 02, 2021 04:29Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration along or near the Lone Star State’s border with Mexico in response to an “ongoing surge” of illegal immigrants.
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Two US immigration jails closed after allegations of abuse
May 21, 2021 00:30The administration of President Joe Biden has ordered the closure of two migrant detention centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over accusations of abuse and misconduct at both facilities.
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Arizona Gov. declares state of emergency at border, sending National Guard
Apr 21, 2021 08:30Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has declared a state of emergency at the state’s southern border with Mexico, sending 250 National Guard troops there to assist law enforcement officials.
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Rights advocates concerned over Biden push to increase militarization of borders in Central America
Apr 15, 2021 15:06Human rights defenders have expressed concern after the Biden administration announced it reached agreements with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala for those countries to boost their deployments of military forces to stop the flow of migrants trying to make their way to the United States.
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Biden strikes international deal in bid to stop migrants reaching US border
Apr 15, 2021 13:47The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to temporarily increase border security in an effort to stop migrants from reaching the US border. The agreement comes as the US saw a record number of unaccompanied children attempting to cross the border in March, and the largest number of Border Patrol encounters overall with migrants on the southern border – just under 170,000 – since March 2001.
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Number of refugee children in US ‘border facilities’ soars amid growing border crisis
Mar 12, 2021 09:58The number of refugee children being held in US border facilities is more than four times the number in late February, highlighting a growing humanitarian and political crisis for President Joe Biden’s administration.
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COVID-19 updates: Mexico's virus toll world's third; Europe's crisis accelerating
Jan 29, 2021 10:01Mexico overtakes India with the third-highest number of coronavirus fatalities, after the US and Brazil. In Europe, countries consider imposing new restrictions as a new variant of COVID-19 that initially emerged in Britain, continues to rise across the continent.
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Citing the pandemic, CBP has expelled newborn U.S. citizens with their migrant mothers
Jan 08, 2021 07:01U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used a controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order authorizing the expulsion of asylum-seekers on supposed public health grounds to send multiple U.S.-born infants — who are by law U.S. citizens — and their migrant families across the southern border to Mexico.
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Latin America’s pandemic of mounting troubles
Jan 03, 2021 07:04Many regions performed badly when confronted with COVID-19, but Latin America fared worse than most, in terms of both lives and livelihoods lost. As of November 2020, nine of the 20 countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita were in Latin America.