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• Trump floats outrageous claim that Black Americans are ‘going to die’ because immigrants are taking their jobs

  17-07-2024 17:25
  
  Trump ramps up anti-immigration agenda by claiming Black workers will be ‘decimated’ without it
  
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• Winnipeg man charged with human smuggling in border bust

  09-10-2024 18:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Winnipeg man faces human smuggling charges after RCMP and U.S. Border Patrol officers arrested a vehicle full of people east of Emerson, Man., late last month.
  
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• Department of Homeland Security may have lost track of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children

  20-08-2024 22:39
  
  ‘ ICE has no assurance [they] are safe,’ agency watchdog report finds
  
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• Volunteers leave water at border for migrants as 90 have died in Arizona desert so far this year

  13-08-2024 22:20
  
  Thousands have died and gone missing at border in last three decades
  
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• Manitobans shopping in the U.S.: Experts say it’s not as good a deal as before

  26-06-2024 00:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Southern Manitobans have a history of travelling to the U.S. for shopping trips. But now, inflation and the exchange rate prompt a question: Is it worth the trip?
  
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• Trump sits down with Logan Paul to talk Putin, 2024 election and being ‘very tough on the border’

  14-06-2024 01:33
  
  The fomer president’s rambling hour-long interview dives into campaign rally rhetoric
  
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• 26 migrants are rescued after smuggled and held in a shack with buckets for toilet and no running water

  07-06-2024 19:26
  
  Operation recalls 2022 smuggling tragedy in similar area outside San Antonio
  
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• Trump labels Biden’s immigration order ‘bulls***’ as he rallies in Arizona after felony conviction

  06-06-2024 23:43
  
  Arizona rally marks first major event since Trump was found guilty in New York hush money case
  
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• Biden’s ‘shameful’ asylum restrictions will face legal challenge: ‘It was illegal when Trump did it, and it is no less illegal now’

  04-06-2024 20:44
  
  Civil rights groups that successfully blocked Trump-era immigration plans now plan to challenge Biden’s order that put ‘thousands of lives at risk’
  
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• Trump and Mike Johnson promote ‘great replacement’ theory to unveil election bill at Mar-a-Lago

  13-04-2024 00:27
  
  Republican frontunner and House Speaker echo far-right conspiracy while promoting redundant measure to ban noncitizens from voting
  
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• Supreme Court extends block on controversial Texas immigration law

  18-03-2024 22:37
  
  Supreme Court paused implementation of SB4, a controversial immigration bill that would allow Texas law enforcement to arrest and charge those entering the US illegally
  
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• Biden faces ‘beyond disappointed’ Democrats after calling suspected killer ‘an illegal’

  08-03-2024 19:57
  
  The president failed to ‘truly distinguish himself’ from Trump’s US-Mexico border rhetoric, groups warn
  
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• Trump attacks, the border, abortion and Gaza: Key moments from Biden’s State of the Union

  08-03-2024 06:33
  
  The president’s potentially final address to Congress framed his vision against his ‘Republican predecessor’
  
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• Federal judge blocks anti-migrant Texas law and shoots down GOP ‘invasion’ claims

  29-02-2024 18:07
  
  Judge pauses state law based on Republican-led arguments that have been ‘unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War’
  
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• 2 men charged for allegedly trying to smuggle people across U.S. border

  13-02-2024 17:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two men from Montreal are facing charges for allegedly trying to smuggle people from Canada into the United States last summer, the RCMP said Tuesday.
  
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• Canada planning pilot at Quebec-N.Y. border to allow preclearance on U.S. side

  12-01-2024 19:15 via globalnews.ca
  The planned project which would establish a preclearance zone inside a Customs and Border Protection facility in Cannon Corners, N.Y., south of Montreal.
  
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• U.S., Mexico agree to tackle record migration as thousands surge toward border

  29-12-2023 03:46 via globalnews.ca
  A caravan of migrants and asylum seekers, many with small children, were trekking north to the U.S.-Mexico border as the two countries announced they were working together.
  
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• Texas governor signs bill that makes illegal border crossings a state crime

  19-12-2023 02:28 via globalnews.ca
  The law, which takes effect in March, allows Texas police to arrest people who are suspected of entering the U.S. illegally and local judges to order them to leave.
  
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• How the Ukraine aid fight may force Biden to accept severe immigration limits

  12-12-2023 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  Immigration policy experts say the Biden administration may be capitulating to hard-right demands for asylum limits and other policy changes in order to get Ukraine aid approved.
  
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• Biden administration clears way for new border wall construction in Texas

  05-10-2023 02:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and Endangered Species Act were some of the federal laws waived by DHS to make way for construction in Starr County, Texas.
  
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• Pastor gets 60-day sentence for role in Alberta COVID border blockade

  18-09-2023 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  In May, Pawlowski was found guilty of mischief and breaching a release order for his role in the blockade at the Coutts, Alta., border crossing in early 2022.
  
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• Fate of U.S. ‘Dreamers’ program likely headed to Supreme Court for 3rd time

  14-09-2023 01:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  A U.S. district judge ruled to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program that prevents the deportation of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
  
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• Months after closure of Quebec’s Roxham Road, more asylum seekers arriving by air

  11-08-2023 19:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  The number of people claiming asylum in Canada dropped sharply after its closure in March. The numbers have since been climbing back up with an increase in arrivals at airports.
  
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• Greg Abbott slammed by Texas lawmakers for ‘cruel’ floating border barriers with ‘chainsaw devices’

  09-08-2023 14:16
  
  Texas has been sued for controversial floating border barriers
  
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• Texas congresswoman slams Greg Abbott’s ‘cruel and inhumane’ floating razor barriers at border

  09-08-2023 02:54
  
  Texas has been sued for controversial floating border barriers
  
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• How Biden broke his promise to stop using private prisons for migrants, as detention levels soar

  07-08-2023 23:15
  
  President campaigned on ending private immigrant detention, but has increased use of it compared to Trump
  
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• New U.S. rules limiting asylum claims at Mexican border blocked by judge

  26-07-2023 04:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal judge delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to give the U.S. Justice Department time to appeal, and the agency immediately did so.
  
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• Greg Abbott slammed for ‘inflatable border’ policy: ‘Will 100 per cent cause more drowning deaths’

  10-06-2023 18:58
  
  Texas governor signs six bills attempting to bolster border security
  
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• Greg Abbott to deploy ‘inflatable border’ along Rio Grande in latest immigration stunt

  09-06-2023 18:27
  
  Texas governor signs six bills attempting to bolster border security
  
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• US Border Patrol chief is retiring following end of Title 42 restrictions at US-Mexico border

  31-05-2023 03:16
  
  The head of U.S. Border Patrol is stepping down from the post, following major changes at the U.S.-Mexico border that came with the end of Title 42 pandemic restrictions
  
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