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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will both visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday in a high-profile clash of schedules as they vie to win over voters on immigration -- one of the hottest issues in the 2024 election. With record numbers of migrants crossing into the United States, Biden has sought to defuse a major threat to his reelection campaign by blaming Congress for failing to back his reforms. For Trump, a hard anti-immigration stance has been central to his political identity for years, and he has repeatedly vowed to crack down on crossings from Mexico as he seeks...
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Washington (AFP) - The Biden administration on Sunday denounced what it said was "dangerous" obstruction by Texas authorities, after three migrants drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico in disputed circumstances. "On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked US Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance," said a statement from White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez. It continued: "While we continue to gather facts about the circumstances of these tragic deaths, one thing is clear: Governor ...
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Jacumba (United States) (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants who cross into the United States from Mexico each day are being herded into open-air camps, where they have no access to food or water. And some are left to sleep on the open ground in a desert riddled with scorpions and snakes, activists say. Campaigners say many will be there for days, waiting to be processed by an immigration system that is overwhelmed by -- and under-prepared for -- the sheer number of people. "We were told by border patrol that this is the new normal," Erika Pinheiro, executive director of the non-governmental Al Otro L...
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Caracas (AFP) - A Guyanese army helicopter with seven people on board was reported missing Wednesday near the border with Venezuela, an official said, as tensions between the two neighbors soar over a disputed oil-rich territory. Guyanese Army Chief of Staff Omar Khan told a press conference that contact had been lost with the helicopter shortly after takeoff in bad weather, adding he had "no information to suggest that" Venezuela had been involved. The report of the missing aircraft added to a fast-escalating border feud over the oil-rich Essequibo region, controlled by Guyana for more than a...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House expressed concern Wednesday at mounting tensions between Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed, oil-rich border region, saying it wants them to avoid any "violence" or "conflict." "It's concerning, we're watching this very, very, very closely," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters when asked about the situation between the neighboring countries. "We obviously don't want to see any violence occur here or conflict occur." Venezuela held a controversial referendum on Sunday on the fate of the Essequibo region -- or Esequiba as it is known...
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Niagara Falls (Canada) (AFP) - A car erupted into a fireball at a US-Canada checkpoint near Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing the two occupants, triggering border closures and sparking a massive security alert on the eve of a major holiday. The regional FBI field office concluded the blast, which occurred around 400 miles (640 kilometers) northwest of New York City, was not linked to terrorism. Witnesses described seeing a car traveling at high speed before it crashed into a checkpoint barrier and exploded into flames. The blast happened at the major Rainbow Bridge crossing near Niagara Fall...
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Eagle Pass (United States) (AFP) - Almost every day at the US-Mexico border, uniformed American officers reinforce razor wire fences that another group of American officials has just cut. Migrants hoping to cross into the United States watch and wait, knowing that one group will come to their aid if they get into trouble while crossing the river that marks the frontier, or fall victim to the oppressive desert heat. The others will not. To the migrants, the Jekyll-and-Hyde American response to their plight is another baffling obstacle on their lengthy and dangerous journey to what they hope is ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Thursday defended plans to extend the border wall with Mexico, saying he didn't think such barriers worked but that he was bound by laws introduced under Donald Trump. Democrat Biden pledged during his White House race with Trump in 2020 that he would abandon the Republican's signature policy and would not build any more of the wall. But his own Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced the building of a new section in southern Texas to tackle an "acute and immediate need," as migrant crossings surge. Biden, who is polling neck-and-neck ...
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Washington (AFP) - The Biden administration quietly announced plans on Thursday to add to the border wall with Mexico -- extending construction of the barrier that was a signature policy of Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a notice in the US Federal Register there was "an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries." The new section of wall will be built in the "high illegal entry" Rio Grande Valley Sector of the US-Mexico border, Mayorkas said, whe...
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Washington (AFP) - The Pentagon said Tuesday it will deploy more troops to help provide security at the US-Mexico border as officials fear a surge in migrant crossing attempts when Covid-19 immigration restrictions end on May 11. Some 1,500 troops will be sent to the border, adding to the 2,500 already there to support Border Patrol authorities in the face of a possible gush of frontier crossings. "For 90 days, these 1,500 military personnel will fill critical capability gaps, such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support," spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryd...
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