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Posted Sep 21, 2021, 6:30 am
Cameron Langford
/Courthouse News Service
As the Biden administration scrambles to repatriate more than 10,000 Haitians who gathered in a Texas border town last week to ask for asylum, immigration officials speaking in the town repeated one message: “Our borders are not open. And people should not make the journey.” ... Read more»
Posted Sep 19, 2021, 10:22 pm
Lomi Kriel & Uriel J. Garcia/ProPublica
The situation in Del Rio spiraled last week as more than 15,000 migrants, many of them from Haiti, arrived at the border in recent days, settling in a makeshift camp as they waited for CBP agents to process their petitions to stay in the U.S. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 8, 2017, 3:46 pm
Raúl M. Grijalva
/U.S. Representative
"Trump's contempt for immigrants is pathetic, and his lack of compassion for fellow human beings is unbecoming of the office he holds. Cruelty aside, his willingness to siphon funds away from the Coast Guard, FEMA and the TSA to pay for his border wall is reckless enough that it should be criminal."... Read more»
Posted Feb 20, 2017, 1:21 pm
Andres Guerra Luz
/Cronkite News
The Border Patrol’s chief agent in the Tucson Sector, told a House subcommittee chaired by Rep. Martha McSally that a barrier along the border cannot be the only line of defense against the cartels.... Read more»
Posted Feb 12, 2015, 11:34 am
Eugene Kiely & Robert Farley/Factcheck.org
Some Democrats overstated the potential impacts of a congressional stalemate that threatens to leave the Department of Homeland Security without funding after Feb. 27, raising the possibility that FEMA and Coast Guard employees would be furloughed.... Read more»
Posted May 28, 2012, 6:02 am
Center for American Progress
We pause to reflect on the service of the brave men and women who left their homes and their families since the founding of this great nation to protect their country and advance the pursuit of security and prosperity the world over.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 17, 2010, 8:19 am
Aaron Mehta & John Solomon/The Center for Public Integrity
In the wee-morning hours after the Deepwater Horizon exploded, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter being dispatched to pluck oil rig survivors floating in the fire-engulfed waters could not launch because its hoist was broken.... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2010, 9:26 am
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
President Obama's plans to scale back some border security plans enacted after 9/11 are drawing fire.... Read more»