Vermont officials want more info on border surveillance plan
WILSON RING, Associated Press
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DERBY LINE, Vt. (AP) Vermont’s lone U.S. congressman and the state attorney general said Monday they wanted to know more about plans by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to build a number of high-powered surveillance towers along the state’s border with the Canadian province of Quebec.
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch and Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan, both Democrats, met Monday with officials in the border community of Derby Line where one of the towers is proposed to be built.
They were joined by a number of local residents and officials who said they were unaware of the project until they heard about local news reports on the proposal.
Fact check: Is Biden immigration policy causing border surge of minors?
Brandon Mulder, PolitiFact Texas
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TOPSHOT - A young female minor walks over others as they lie inside a pod for females at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by the US Customs and Border Protection, (CBP), in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. - The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS
Feds: $1 million worth of cocaine pulled off cargo ship
April 4, 2021
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Federal authorities say that more than $1 million worth of cocaine has been hauled of a cargo ship that was anchored in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that the seizure was made Wednesday during a freighter inspection.
The agency said that agents uncovered 44 pounds of the drug in an area where the ship s anchor is stored. The nearly 1,000-foot vessel is named the M/V Samjohn Solidarity.
Federal officials say that no arrests were made, but the investigation continues.
Cook Co. aims to disrupt conviction-to-deportation pipeline
CARLOS BALLESTEROS of Injustice Watch
April 3, 2021
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CHICAGO (AP) Alejandra Cano thought she was in the clear.
It had been five years since she got sober after a decades long struggle with drug addiction. She racked up several misdemeanors when she was using, mostly for shoplifting. But that was another life. In this one, Cano, 46, was a working single mom who lived in a comfortable first-floor apartment on the West Side of Chicago with her two teenage sons. And after almost 20 years of not seeing her dad or her homeland, Cano decided to fly to Chile in August 2019.
In ghostly border video, dangers for migrant kids revealed
PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press
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Now Playing: Video released Wednesday by U.S. officials shows two Ecuadoran children being dropped by smugglers over a 14-foot-high barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. The two were checked for injuries and are now in the care of U.S. authorities. (March 31) Video: Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) A border wall. Smugglers. Small children being dropped into America in the darkness.
A grainy video released Wednesday by authorities its figures visible only in ghostly white outline, its stark storyline dramatic and obvious captures, in mere seconds, the dangers for migrant children at the southern U.S. border.