The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration races to handle an influx of children trying to cross the US-Mexico border alone.
New York bill proposes local police be banned from working with ICE
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Protestors hold a rally outside the front doors of the Rensselaer County Sheriff s office on on Thursday, Feb. 20, 20202, in Troy, N.Y. There is a bill in the state Legislature in March 2021 that would ban state law enforcement agencies from working with ICE. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The lights flashed red and blue behind him as Daniel Hernandez was driving his truck home from an auto garage.
A Catskill police officer pulled Hernandez over in February 2020, allegedly for having a loud exhaust, according to the immigrant advocacy group Columbia County Sanctuary Movement. Questions from police about his car turned into questions about his immigration status, and when the officer suspected Hernandez was undocumented, he took him to the station in handcuffs, holding him until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived to detain him.
Republicans head to border to press Biden on child migrant surge
Laura Litvan and Billy House, Bloomberg
March 15, 2021
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Migrants are apprehended after crossing the border near Mission, Texas, on March 2, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Sergio Flores.
Republican members of Congress are trooping to the U.S.-Mexico border to put a spotlight on a surge of migrants at the frontier that they say is the result of President Joe Biden s shift from the hardline immigration policies of his predecessor.
Less than two months into Biden s term, both parties are already framing their messages on immigration a perennial political flashpoint for the 2022 election to decide control of the House and Senate.