Texas inspections again snarl truck traffic at Mexican border Trucks carrying merchandise to the U.S. are sitting in line for hours at the El Paso-Juarez border, as the Texas Department of Public Safety has resumed enhanced inspections of commercial vehicles. 04/29/2024 - 9:24 am | View Link
AMLO or Abbott?: Who is the real migrant bus king of North America at U.S.-Mexico border Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's immigration agency has intensified a busing program that aims to hurt migrants' chances of reaching the U.S. border. 04/29/2024 - 8:10 am | View Link
Mexico is credited with reducing migration to the U.S., but ground reports show a more complex picture A report by the Financial Times highlights that the behavior of authorities can vastly change depending on the occasion 04/29/2024 - 4:55 am | View Link
Oregon Republicans visit Arizona-Mexico border to learn about immigration, security The lawmakers say lax security around the southern border exacerbates the drug crisis in Oregon, 1,000 miles north. 04/29/2024 - 4:47 am | View Link
Most voters say border is top issue for Congress to tackle: poll Some 57% of voters believe that tackling border security is “more important or less important than all other things Congress could be working on” at the moment, a recent poll found. 04/29/2024 - 4:36 am | View Link
What to know about the situation at the US-Mexico border CNN — The US-Mexico border is a pressing challenge for the Biden administration as it tries to reverse former President Donald Trump’s hardline policies and address the growing number of... 04/28/2024 - 7:05 am | View Website
What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year, more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the highest annual total on record. The number of encounters had fallen to just over 400,000 in fiscal 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak slowed migration ... 04/28/2024 - 4:28 am | View Website
The U.S.-Mexico Border: How Americans View the Situation, Its Causes ... A sizable majority of Americans (78%) say the large number of migrants seeking to enter this country at the U.S.-Mexico border is either a crisis (45%) or a major problem (32%), according to the Pew Research Center survey, conducted Jan. 16-21, 2024, among 5,140 adults. 04/28/2024 - 4:06 am | View Website
Mexico–United States border The Mexico–United States border (Spanish: frontera Estados Unidos–México) is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east. The border traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from urban areas to deserts. 04/28/2024 - 3:02 am | View Website
The unprecedented situation at the US-Mexico border – visualized Mexico was the single most common origin country for US border encounters in 2023, but Mexican nationals made up less than 30% of the total share, compared with more than 60% a decade ago.... 04/28/2024 - 2:04 am | View Website
(CHARLESTON, W. Va.) — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case likely headed to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Richmond-based 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid.
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“The coverage exclusions facially discriminate on the basis of sex and gender identity, and are not substantially related to an important government interest,” Judge Roger Gregory, first appointed by former President Bill Clinton and re-appointed by former President George W.
(SHERIDAN, Ind.) — U. S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when $61 billion in additional support for the war effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it.
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Instead she has called for better oversight of U.
Colorado lawmakers are racing against the calendar — or, depending on one’s outlook — wielding time like a weapon against disfavored policies — to finish their business for the 2024 regular session of the General Assembly.
The legislature must adjourn by the end of the day on May 8, giving them 10 final days.
There are now just 10 days left in the 2024 Colorado legislative session. With a number of hefty bills still in the legislative pipeline, that means 10 days of long nights, voting marathons and hectic scrambling lie ahead of us.
Or, to paraphrase how one senator put it to The Denver Post last week: Go outside, touch grass, and kiss your families goodbye for a little while.
The bulk of Gov.