border security

June 14June 14
Sick Teen With Premature Baby Shows Migrants’ Plight: Advocates
$Sick Teen With Premature Baby Shows Migrants’ Plight: Advocates$
- Entertainment
The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature, being held in detention instead of where she believes […]
June 12June 12
For first time, Mexicans make up less than half of U.S. undocumented immigrants
- National
The number of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. without legal status has declined so sharply over the past decade that for the first time, they no longer make up the majority of that category, according to an estimate by the Pew Research Center Wednesday. But the number of undocumented Central Americans is increasing — from 1.5 […]
June 05June 05
Texas District Recommends Termination for Teacher Who Tweeted Trump
- Entertainment
Fort Worth ISD’s school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend termination for a teacher who was placed on leave after allegedly sending anti-immigrant tweets to President Donald Trump. Georgia Clark, who taught English at Carter-Riverside High School, was reporting undocumented students in her school district in the tweets. She tweeted the school had been “taken over” […]
May 31May 31
Border agents apprehend more than 1,000 migrants in record roundup
- National
More than 1,000 migrants were apprehended after illegally crossing the border near El Paso, Texas, early Wednesday morning, according to two U.S. officials and a document obtained by NBC News. The group of 1,036 is the largest ever encountered by the Border Patrol; the previous record of 424 was set last month. Customs and Border Protection has […]
May 30May 30
Trump says U.S. to impose 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods
- National
President Donald Trump said Thursday night that the United States would impose a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods starting next month, saying the sweeping tariffs would rise monthly to as high as 25 percent “until Mexico substantially stops the illegal inflow of aliens coming through its territory.” Trump has previously threatened to use […]
May 28May 28
Group says it’s building border wall using millions donated in GoFundMe campaign
- Entertainment
A group that raised millions of dollars in a GoFundMe campaign says it has broken ground on a project to build its own stretch of border wall on private property. We Build the Wall, a group founded by a triple amputee Air Force veteran, said in a series of social media posts on Monday that […]
May 20May 20
5th Migrant Child Dies After Detention by Border Patrol Since Dec.
- Entertainment
The U.S. government says a 16-year-old Guatemalan died Monday at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child since December. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that Border Patrol apprehended the teenager in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley on May 13. The agency says the teenager […]
May 16May 16
Photos show Border Patrol saving migrant boy from drowning
- Entertainment
Photos show a Border Patrol agent saving a Honduran child who almost drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande to enter the United States. Four adults and five children were trying to get across the river near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Friday in inflatable children’s swimming pools,The San Antonio Express-News reported. But the rafts […]

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