Federal immigration agents arrested 162 people in the Southland during a recent enforcement operation, including a Mexican national convicted of rape and a citizen of El Salvador convicted of voluntary manslaughter, authorities said Thursday. The three-day operation that ended Tuesday “targeted public safety threats, such as convicted criminal aliens and gang members, and individuals who […]
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Amid reports of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called the administration’s actions “barbaric,” as Speaker Paul Ryan said the situation called for a legislative fix. “To the barbaric and unacceptable policy of ripping children from the arms of their parents at […]
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FIFA voted Wednesday to play the 2026 World Cup in North America, with the United States, Mexico and Canada jointly hosting. More than 200 national football federations took part in the vote in Moscow at their annual meeting one day before the 2018 World Cup kicks off. The North American bid won 134 votes, while Morocco […]
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U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested a previously deported sex offender, along with four other individuals at the Highway 111 Checkpoint early Monday morning. The incident occurred at 5:30 a.m., when Border Patrol agents assigned to the Highway 111 Checkpoint referred a vehicle to secondary inspection after a brief immigration […]
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The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna told The Associated Press in an interview that his agency is hiring […]
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The number of immigrants apprehended for crossing the border illegally increased in May despite the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that prosecutes illegal immigrants and separates prosecuted parents from their children, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested around 2,000 more immigrants crossing the border between official […]
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U.S. pork farmers could lose $100 million annually, after Mexico said it would slap a massive tariff on pork imports to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s aluminum and steel import levies, according to an estimate by the Iowa Farm Bureau. Mexico, the second-largest market for U.S. pork exports, said Wednesday it would impose a 10 percent […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to toss out a lower court ruling that allowed a 17-year-old woman from Mexico to seek an abortion at an outside medical clinic while she was held in federal custody at a detention facility in Texas. The Trump administration urged the justices to vacate the ruling, an action that wipes out […]
