A Guatemalan woman plunged to her death after she was stranded atop a 30-foot border fence near Otay Mesa for at least 24 minutes, in part due to a Border Patrol agent initially leading firefighters to the wrong location, according to videos of the March incident and information recently published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. … Read more
By Phil Mattingly and Andrew Seger | CNN It took Donald Trump one week in the Oval Office to set off an immigration firestorm with the stroke of a pen. The executive order Trump signed in January 2017 was intended to immediately deliver on a campaign pledge to ban entry into the US from certain … Read more
By Laura Paddison | CNN A California man was arrested and charged Monday with allegedly smuggling potent, planet-heating greenhouse gases from Mexico, marking the first such prosecution in the US, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. Michael Hart, a 58-year-old man from San Diego, pleaded not … Read more
Federal authorities say they have broken up an alleged scheme to smuggle drugs, including fentanyl, from Mexico to the United States by hiding the illegal drugs inside fire extinguishers. A total of 17 defendants have been charged under a federal grand jury indictment, as part of a two-year investigation dubbed Operation “Smoke Jumpers”. During the … Read more
Analysis by Catherine E. Shoichet | CNN Just about everyone agrees that whatever US immigration system is supposed to exist at the southern border — and beyond it — is badly broken. The number of unauthorized immigrants crossing the border keeps reaching record highs. The backlog of cases in US immigration courts has soared past … Read more
By Valerie Gonzalez and Elliot Spagat | Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas — Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to the U.S. to seek asylum when the freight train they were riding through Mexico was stopped by immigration officials. His wife tried to explain that her family had permission to go to … Read more
Alexandra Mendoza | San Diego Union-Tribune En Español TIJUANA — Months into an ongoing increase in migrant border crossings — which have left hundreds of migrants on any given day unsheltered in San Diego County and strained local humanitarian resources — Mexican authorities have stepped up enforcement in an effort to deter passage into the United … Read more
The first indication usually comes from a worker in Brownsville, Texas. That person informs Los Angeles officials that Texas authorities have just completed their latest roundup of immigrants from shelters and meeting sites. The state has loaded up a bus full of men, women and children and pointed it toward Los Angeles. As far as … Read more