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In his State of the Union address last week, President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass a bipartisan immigration bill “with the toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen.” The bill would have, among other things, funded “100 more high-tech drug detection machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles … Read more
North Korea has used the Covid-19 pandemic to seal up its northern border with China, new images from a leading human rights group show. Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes a situation which has seen “intensifying repression”, with “drastically reduced” cross-border movement and trade. In the research, North Koreans spoke of the increasingly restrictive measures. UN … Read more
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s border and coast guard agency has a duty to inform Libyan authorities about migrant boats in trouble in the country’s waters and will keep doing so, the head of Frontex insisted Tuesday, after a charity accused Libya’s coast guard of threatening its crew during a rescue. German charity SOS Humanity … Read more
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona bill that would have made it a crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry has been vetoed by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the measure late last month along party lines. Arizona has emerged as a … Read more
Former president Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential contender this year, on Thursday is expected to travel to Eagle Pass, Tex., the city that has turned into a showcase for Gov. Greg Abbott’s state-led border crackdown, Operation Lone Star. Abbott has deployed thousands of National Guard troops, spools of concertina wire that stretch for miles … Read more
When the Israel Defense Forces unleashed Wednesday their heaviest airstrikes on Lebanon since the start of the conflict in October, it said several of its targets were sites associated with Hezbollah’s elite Redwan force. Long barely known, its fighters put on a show last year for local and foreign reporters who were invited on a … Read more
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. The bipartisan border bill that Republican … Read more
During an hours-long livestream at night, Yarbery, Fulfer, and Felix all shouted at the migrants and accused them of human trafficking. Yarbery even tried to sell cigarettes to the migrants for $20 each. At one point, Fulfer threatened violence against a migrant who was shining a torch at their cameras. The trio also verbally attacked … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the territory’s main aid supply route, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Sunday. The threat to … Read more
Immigration is a polarizing issue in U.S. politics, and will probably play a central role in the November presidential election. Illegal border crossings have averaged 2 million per year since 2021, the highest level ever, and Republicans are eager to run against President Biden’s border security record. Polls show broad public disapproval of how Biden … Read more