Tag: border

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (March 4)

Security ramps up at the Capitol after intel reports of a supposed plot by violent extremists, 1,600 arrests are made in a single Texas border sector, and a Veterans Affairs update reveals hundreds of thousands of veterans are recovering from the virus.


13 Killed in California Crash Allegedly Entered US Illegally via Border Fence Hole: Officials

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said they believe the victims killed in the collision in Southern California just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border were illegal immigrants who were smuggled through a dilapidated border fence near Calexico. A Ford Expedition carrying more than two-dozen people collided with a semi-truck in Imperial County, California, on Tuesday,…


Deep Dive (March 2): Texas Dem. Rep. Calls Biden’s Immigration Policies ‘Catastrophic’

President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Senate Democrats on Tuesday as the Senate gears up to pass his $1.9 trillion relief package. Democrats in the Senate aim to pass the bill through budget reconciliation, which means they could pass it without Republican support. The Biden administration wants to bring deportees who have been separated…


India, Pakistan Militaries Agree to Stop Cross-Border Firing in Rare Joint Statement

New Delhi—The militaries of India and Pakistan said in a rare joint statement on Thursday that they had agreed to observe a ceasefire along the disputed border in Kashmir, having exchanged fire hundreds of times in recent months. The nuclear-armed neighbors signed a ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kashmir region…


Why Are so Many Migrants Rushing to the Southern Border?

Changes in Mexican asylum laws and modifications to U.S. immigration policy combined with exploitation by smugglers are causing an increase in migrants at the southern U.S. border seeking entry, according to reports. The Biden administration suspended the ‘remain in Mexico’ program allowing some asylum seekers to enter the U.S. and ended a policy preventing unaccompanied…


Biden Administration Holding Child Migrants at Border for Up to 5 Days

President Joe Biden’s administration is holding child migrants at the southern border for up to five days, in violation of an agreement that stipulates children should only be held at Customs and Border Protection facilities for a maximum of 72 hours in most cases. “There were some delays last week because of weather and because…


‘We Are Likely To See Another Crisis at the Border in a Very Short Time’: Center for Immigration Studies

Under President Joe Biden’s new immigration policy there will be a border crisis very soon, according to Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that in accordance with Biden’s executive orders, starting Feb. 19 the agency will begin processing people who had…


South Korea Investigating North Korean Man Who Crossed Armed Border

SEOUL—South Korea’s military said on Tuesday it had captured a North Korean man who crossed the heavily fortified border between the two countries and was investigating whether he tried to defect. The man was found about 4:20 a.m. local time near a checkpoint on the eastern end of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the rival…


House Republicans Accuse Biden of Playing ‘Political Game’ Over Border Crisis

A group of more than 50 House Republicans have accused President Joe Biden of treating the U.S.-Mexico border as a “political game” after he signed a flurry of executive orders that dismantled the Trump administration’s border security measures. In a letter (pdf) to the president Tuesday, the group of 51 Republicans led by Rep. Chip Roy…


Border Patrol Seized 470,000 Pounds of Drugs in 2020 Using New Screening Tech

Customs and Border Protection seized nearly half a million pounds of illegal narcotics at the border in 2020 using new screening technology, agency officials announced Thursday. Over half of the narcotics found last year, or around 470,000 pounds, were discovered through so-called non-intrusive inspection technology, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The agency seized a total of 808,522 pounds…