Tag: border

Poland Turns Water Cannon on Migrants At Belarus Border

BRUSSELS/WARSAW—Polish security forces fired water cannon at rock-throwing migrants on the border with Belarus on Nov. 16, and NATO reiterated its support for Warsaw in a crisis that has left thousands stranded on the frontier in icy temperatures. Video footage released by Polish authorities showed migrants also throwing bottles and logs across a barbed-wire border…


Record-High Arrests of Illegal Immigrants at US–Mexico Border During Biden’s First October

Arrests of illegal immigrants at the U.S. border with Mexico during President Joe Biden’s first October in office were the highest ever recorded in the month, data released Monday show. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made 164,303 arrests in October. That’s slightly higher than preliminary estimates and 55 percent higher than the previous high for…


Polish Police Find Body of Young Syrian Near Belarus Border

WARSAW, Poland—Polish police said Saturday that the body of a young Syrian man was found in the woods near the border with Belarus, the latest victim in a political standoff at the European Union’s eastern border. The regime in Minsk has for months been encouraging illegal migration across its border into the EU nations of…


Arrests of Illegal Immigrants at US–Mexico Border Set New October Record

Apprehensions along the U.S.–Mexico border in October set a new record for the month, unpublished data obtained by The Epoch Times show. Border Patrol logged about 163,000 arrests of illegal immigrants at the northern and southern borders, according to the preliminary data, which does not include Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations (OFO)….


‘It’s Going to Be Crazy’: Snowbirds at Campground Eager for U.S. Border Reopening

MILK RIVER, Alta.—Nearly two years of being caged in Canada during the COVID−19 pandemic has some snowbirds anxiously waiting in their motorhomes and trailers in southern Alberta. The Eight Flags Campground in the small windswept town of Milk River, 18 kilometres from the Canada−United States border crossing at Coutts, is full of shiny, large RVs….


Belarusian Forces Threatened to Open Fire at Polish Troops Guarding Border, Says Defense Ministry

Poland’s defense ministry on Thursday accused Belarusian soldiers of threatening to open fire on Polish troops just across the Polish-Belarusian border one day earlier. “Yesterday there was another provocation against Polish soldiers protecting the border,” the Polish Ministry of Defense (MOD) said. “The Polish soldiers located a group of around 250 migrants near the fence,” it…


Biden Denies ‘Garbage’ Reports of $450,000 Payments to Illegal Immigrants

President Joe Biden on Wednesday denied reports that his administration is planning to pay $450,000 to families of illegal aliens separated under the Trump administration. “If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. But it’s not true,” Biden told a reporter who asked a question about the matter on Nov. 3. “That’s not going…


Woman Dies Trying to Swim Around California-Mexican Border Barrier

A woman has died in an attempt to illegally enter the United States by swimming around the end of the barrier along the California-Mexican border, federal officials said. Border patrol agents were notified just after 11:30 p.m. Friday that a group of possibly 70 people was trying to swim from Tijuana, Mexico into the United…


Live Q&A: US May Pay Hundreds of Millions to Illegal Immigrants; Claims of Political Infighting

The Biden administration is allegedly considering paying illegal immigrants up to $450,000 per person for those who were affected by Trump’s strong policies on the border. And in other news, there are signs of possible infighting in the White House between the Biden family and Vice President Kamala Harris. In this live Q&A with Crossroads…


India Says It Is Concerned About China’s New Border Law

NEW DELHI—India’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it was concerned about a new law passed by China last week to strengthen border protection amid a protracted military standoff between the two Asian giants along a contested Himalayan frontier. On Saturday, China passed a dedicated law specifying how it governs and guards its 14,000-mile land…