Democratic House Rep. Henry Cuellar represents a southern Texas district that includes more than 290 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico. As a result he is very familiar with border issues, including the influx of undocumented immigrants, what to do with them, and how they are treated. In his district he has national guard…
President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he will sign an extensive executive order requiring asylum-seekers to present themselves at a port of entry. In a television speech full of tough rhetoric designed to fire up right-wing voters for the midterms, he also said that he would hold the Central American refugees in tent cities…
Trump is set to waste untold millions deploying troops to the border for a non-emergency. On Wednesday, the Pentagon told Reuters that about 7,000 troops could be deployed if needed . The Pentagon refused to discuss budget. We have no actual assessment of threat, and in any case, as the BBC pointed out, the caravan…
“We wish we had a space dignified enough to offer our visitors,” said Zelfareli Cruz Medina, Niltepec’s mayor.
As she spoke, caravan members were stringing up garbage bags to use as tents in Niltepec’s main square. The warmth of the welcome in Niltepec stood in deliberate, stark contrast to Trump’s hostility, said Jorge Luis Fuentes, a senior town official.
The New York Times reported Thursday that President Donald Trump is considering closing the United States’ southern border with Mexico. According to the Times: “The effort would be the starkest indication yet of Mr. Trump’s election-season push to play to his anti-immigrant base as his party fights to keep control of Congress.” “The proposal amounts…
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway couldn’t answer a reporter’s question about whether the Trump administration had evidence supporting its claim that Venezuela and possibly the Democrats were funding the caravan of migrants heading to the U.S.
It is very clear that all Republicans, but especially President Donald Trump, are growing increasingly desperate as the midterm elections grow near. While they had initially planned to base their November campaigns on the great economy and the wonderful benefits of their tax plan, they have discovered that those ideas aren’t working. Most American voters…
By Delphine Schrank TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) – Thousands of Central American migrants traveling together to enter the United States have hunkered down in shelters in a southern Mexico city along its border with Guatemala, according to local officials. The migrants pose a tough challenge to the Mexican government’s pledge to stop the illegal travelers’…
By Delphine Schrank TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) – Hundreds of Central Americans in a U.S.-bound migrant caravan were stuck on Guatemala’s border with Mexico on Saturday as efforts began, under pressure from Washington, to send some home and stop their journey northward. Many of the migrants, the overwhelming majority fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras,…