More Turbulence Ahead, Keep Those Seatbelts Buckled
Global commentators have suggested that the political wildcard for 2024 will be the United States
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Biden Sends 1,500 Troops to Guard Border with Mexico
Since taking office in January 2021, Biden has grappled with record numbers of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, leading to a crisis situation in many border states
Read moreSpring Brings Simmering Diplomatic Temperatures
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUS Border Town Braces for More Migrants as Partisan Fights Rage on
XINHUA HIDALGO, Texas — It’s a scene straight out of a “Mission: Impossible” episode: A helicopter hovers at low altitude above a roadside jungle while several officers search on foot along the bush edges with a dozen vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies stopping by. But for people living in Hidalgo, a county near the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas, the
Read moreBorder Crossings Expected to Reach 20-Year High
XINHUA The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Tuesday, March 16, that the number of immigrants attempting to enter the United States through its southern border is expected to reach the highest level in two decades. The statement came amid a recent surge in unaccompanied migrant children making the trip with the aim of reuniting with
Read moreUS Launches Smuggling Probe into Deadly California Crash
XINHUA The traffic collision that killed 13 people in California near the border with Mexico on Tuesday, March 2, is now under human smuggling investigation by U.S. federal agency, local media reported Wednesday, March, 3. The burgundy Ford Expedition crossed the U.S. border with Mexico by driving through a hole cut into the border fence early Tuesday, March 2, local
Read moreThe View from the North: AMLO Just Gave Trump a Big Issue to Run on
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Nearly a decade after the failed U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gun-running sting called Fast and Furious ended in the tragic Arizona desert murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is now demanding clarification about the bilateral operation, and has asked for a formal
Read moreWreckers, Rebels and Rumrunners
By RICH GRANT The six-foot-two-inch female impersonator in the gold dress curled her finger at me across Duval Street and shouted, “Come on over, honey, the show starts in 15 minutes.” She was wrong. The “show” in Key West started about 180 years ago and it’s still going strong. This somewhat crazy tropical island, capital of the self-proclaimed Conch Republic,
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