Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 84,000 migrants crossing the U.S. southern border in June, the lowest monthly number since President Joe Biden took office in 2021, a Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. The number of apprehensions in June was nearly 30 percent lower than in May, when Border Patrol made over […]
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US-Mexico border crossings fall to three-year low after Biden’s executive order
Undocumented crossings at the US’s southern border have fallen to a three-year low, marking the lowest in Joe Biden’s presidency just a short time after he signed a controversial executive order limiting immigration there in June. The latest data from the federal Customs and Border Patrol obtained by CBS News is the most recent since […]
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US-Mexico border crossings are down, as Joe Biden says, but cause is hard to pinpoint
Statement: “Due to the arrangements that I’ve reached with (Mexico’s) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.” President Joe Biden issued a new directive June 4 to limit the number of migrants seeking asylum at the southern U.S. border. Biden’s proclamation comes weeks […]
Biden expected to sign order closing border with Mexico when crossings surge
President Biden is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday closing the U.S. border with Mexico between official ports of entry while crossings are high, a change designed to make it harder for people who cross illegally to seek asylum. Under a new interim rule, the president can put the border restrictions into effect when […]
Freight train crushes car in Puyallup, police say, blocking rail crossings for hours
A freight train collided with an unoccupied car Friday night in Puyallup, according to police, leaving a number of crossings near downtown blocked for hours while crews cleared the tracks. The Puyallup Police Department said in a 10 p.m. Facebook post that no one was injured and officers were working with Burlington Northern Santa Fe […]
Irregular crossings of US-Mexico border fall by half after December’s record high
Non-authorized crossings by migrants into the United States along the US-Mexico border have dropped by more than 50% compared with record high crossings in December 2023, according to a new report citing federal statistics. According to the US border patrol, agents recorded a daily average of 3,700 apprehensions of migrants along the border in the […]
Safety enhancements planned for Brevard County rail crossings
The Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization plans to go after a federal grant through the Railroad Crossing Elimination Program. The proposed Brevard County Sealed Corridor Project could potentially improve safety by installing enhancements at 9-grade crossings along the Florida East Coast Railway, where Brightline also operates its passenger rail service. Brevard County Commissioners will decide […]
Record high migrant Channel crossings for first five months of the year
The number of migrants detected crossing the Channel has hit a new record high for the first five months of a calendar year. Some 117 arrivals were recorded on Thursday, bringing the cumulative total for 2024 to 9,681, provisional data from the Home Office shows. This is already higher than the total for the first […]
Gaza is ‘choked off’ from aid since crossings shut, UN agencies say
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -U.N. agencies said on Tuesday the two main crossings into the southern Gaza Strip remained shut, virtually cutting off the Palestinian enclave from outside aid with few stocks positioned inside. The global agency’s humanitarian office spokesperson Jens Laerke told journalists Israel had shut both the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings […]
Former Hickory Hollow Mall/Global Mall at the Crossings set for demolition
ANTIOCH, Tenn. (WRKN) — The center of Antioch shopping and anchor of commerce for Southeast Nashville since the 1970s, the former Hickory Hollow Mall/Global Mall at the Crossings, is set to be demolished. A spokesperson for Mayor Freddie O’Connell told News 2 the mall’s connecting hallways and storefronts are to be demolished while the four […]
Republicans Are Lying About One Major Way Biden Has Decreased U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings
While most of the debate over immigration focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of President Joe Biden’s most effective policies so far has occurred elsewhere ― at airports. For a little over a year, Biden has used what’s called “parole” authority to collectively allow up to 30,000 vetted Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans per month […]