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Advertisement: “You can’t even describe what we are doing as a Band-Aid on a gushing wound,” Jakubal said. He said a long history of U.S. policies in Latin America has contributed to the reasons migrants are risking their lives to trek for days through harsh terrain in hopes of finding better lives in the U.S. In other words, Jakubal said, “what’s going on at the border now is like a symptom on top of a symptom on top of a symptom of the ...

134 3 minutes read Featured image: A photo of the wreckage from May 2. Credit: City of San Diego Fire-Rescue Twitter (@SDFD) At least four people have died and over two dozen more hospitalized after a 40-foot vessel carrying approximately 30 migrants capsized off the coast of San Diego May 2. The boat broke apart after hitting rocks near Point Loma, which is a peninsula dividing San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean.  A “search and rescue” operation followed, with several survivors being ...

“The Democrats’ relationship with immigration is not so great either,” points out artist Pablo Helguera. March 4, 2021 Artist Rashwan Abdelbaki greets a guest at the Queens Museum, December 2018, with a work of his on the wall in the background. Photo Michael Wilson, courtesy Artistic Freedom Initiative. Many culture workers in the U.S., typically avid believers in international cultural exchange, are heaving a sigh of relief at the election of Joe Biden, a far more liberal-minded preside...

Jenn Budd, Border Patrol agent turned migrant activist, has deep Alabama roots Updated Feb 19, 2021; Posted Feb 19, 2021 Deported U.S. Vietnam veteran Ruben Robles, 70, left, shows the wrist band he made for migrant rights activist Jenn Budd who works with deported U.S. veterans at Friendship Park in Tijuana on June 16, 2019. Budd, a former senior border patrol officer with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, now works with veterans who have been deported to Mexico and are now living in T...

Print The migrant girl was around 6 years old, dehydrated, fluish and despondent. Her head looked too big for her body — a sign of malnutrition — and she had lice in her hair. The girl had spent two weeks outdoors held at the sunbaked Border Patrol detention center in El Paso with her asylum-seeking family before being brought to a migrant shelter in San Diego. That’s where Jenn Budd found her in the summer of 2018, and she needed serious medical intervention. For the record: 11:43 AM, F...

In Arizona, people are feeling the impact of President Bidens order to halt border wall construction. While the walls presence has already had a profound impact on border communities, its enduring legacy under a new president remains unclear. Amna Nawaz reports. Read the Full Transcript Judy Woodruff: We have been focusing in-depth this week on President Bidens plans to reset the countrys immigration policies. Tonight, we check in from Arizona, where communities already are feeling the effects ...

Opinions | The DHS secretary could chart a new path on immigration. Will he? Adam Goodman © Joshua Roberts/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Alejandro Mayorkas, nominee for secretary of homeland security. (Joshua Roberts/Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) More than 80 million Americans voted for Joe Biden in November, in part because he promised to end the Trump administration’s war on immigrants. President Biden has tasked Alejandro Mayorkas, his nominee for secretary of the Depa...

Were enforcing back during operation gatekeeper, which is having its 25th anniversary this year, basically are the same things we see today, that the walls create more violence and death amongst the migrants nobody really wanted to solve the problem, they just wanted to, you know, get political gain out of it. then just all the corruption and everything that i saw within the patrol i just -- i just couldnt condone my actions anymore, and decided that needed to leave for my own sanity. i just did...

Than to help the very people that they claim trump is holding hostage. pray tell why well the democrats have offered solutions to keep all of the government paid, including a bill that the president was originally supporting back in december that passed the united states senate unanimously that would have kept the government open through february so they could have anything go shatd with the new congress border security and immigration reform >> laura: chuck schumer likes -- right? i mean they...

Wall on the entire southwestern border, in some places, it is going to be a good idea, and at some places it is going to work, but there are areas that the southwest border that is virtually impossible to put a fence up. you get to the big mountains, the canyons, stuff like that -- >> laura: the president has never said put them in the mountains, the rio grande river, excuse me for putting you in pima county, obviously i knew where hudspeth is. we were referencing another sheriff earlier. the th...