Border Report: A Former Ambassador Gets Real
Christopher Landau, the former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, spoke candidly about his post to fellow diplomats on a call organized by the Council of American Ambassadors two weeks ago. Plus: the latest on the border sewage crisis, a plan to help migrants pay for legal assistance and more.
Image via Shutterstock
The world recently got an inside view of what the United States’ onetime top diplomat south of the border thinks about U.S.-Mexico relations. And it has gone largely unnoticed.
Christopher Landau, the former American ambassador to Mexico, spoke candidly about his post to fellow diplomats on a call organized by the Council of American Ambassadors two weeks ago. A recording of the call was uploaded to YouTube and, as of Monday morning, amassed 2,000 views.
Roadmap for Urgent Change in Immigration Detention | Opinion Denise Bell and Clara Long On 5/13/21 at 8:30 AM EDT
More than 100 days into his term, President Joe Biden has yet to take significant steps to change course on immigration detention. With Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) still holding over 16,000 immigrants and asylum seekers, he needs to end the suffering flowing from this system. He should act now to make liberty not arbitrary detention the default approach and dismantle the U.S. system of mass detention of immigrants in abusive conditions.
President Biden told activists in Georgia in late April that, Private detention centers should not exist and we are working to close all of them. Later the same day, he told reporters he had been teasing and suggested he couldn t make changes without passing legislation. We ve documentedlong-standing problems in the immigration detention system, just as we ve reported on how these abuses were exacer
Breaking News, Latest News and Current News from OANN.com. Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports.
Report: San Diego scraps plans to build tent city for illegal immigrants
FILE – In this May 26, 2010, file photo, men sit in the sun in the health ward at the Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 9:00 AM PT – Saturday, May 8, 2021
San Diego County has rescinded its plans to build a so-called “tent city” for illegal immigrants amid public outcry. According to reports, the county sent a letter to farmers searching for agricultural land for migrants to live on while being offered California’s “wrap around” services, including mental health, schooling and health care.
San Diego homeless vets sleep on street as city allocates $5 million for legal defense of criminal aliens
In 2019, the city of San Diego, California was home to over 2,600 unsheltered homeless people, along with 2,473 sheltered homeless people, according to ABC-10 San Diego.
Of the total number of homeless in the city, a good number are veterans, with low estimates according to Homeless Veterans of San Diego being around 400 or so.
CREDIT: Horydczak, Theodor, photographer. “Bonus veterans from Jeannette, Pennsylvania.” 1932. Theodor Horydczak Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
In San Diego County? That number was estimated to be 1,068 in 2019, about 13% of the entire homeless population.