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Congress Races Against Time To Pass $1.2 Trillion Funding Package

The package earmarks $19.6 billion for Customs and Border Protection, marking a $3.2 billion increase from the previous fiscal year. Notably absent is any allocation for the controversial border wall, while $495 million is designated for additional Border Patrol agents in line with the Biden administration's calls.

International Business Times

FBI sent informants to Standing Rock

Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps

Salon

Biden's 2025 Budget Proposal Includes $4.7 billion Emergency Fund for Border Security

The fund would let DHS access the money as needed when the amount of border crossings breaks an unspecified threshold

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Arizona Sector Becomes Area With the Most Border Crossings: the Main Reasons for This

Tucson has recorded the highest amount of migrant apprehensions in fiscal year 2024, with over a quarter of a million

Latin Times

Customs And Border Protection Intercepts Smuggled Bushmeat At Logan Airport

Learn about recent incidents of illegal wildlife smuggling intercepted by U.S. Customs, highlighting risks associated with prohibited animal products on pl...

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‘Intentional cruelty’: asylum seekers are dying at US-Mexico border, say advocates

Complaint details human rights violations, including lack of food, water and shelter and denial of emergency care

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Arizona's governor is sending the National Guard to the border

Arizona's governor on Friday ordered the state's National Guard to the border with Mexico to help federal officials manage an influx of migrants.

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Arizona's governor is sending the state's National Guard to the border to help with a migrant influx

Arizona’s governor has ordered the state’s National Guard to send troops to the border with Mexico to help federal officials manage an influx of migrants

The Independent UK

US Homeland Security staff accuse leadership of turning ‘blind eye’ to Gaza

An open letter from Homeland Security employees blasts agency heads for ‘minimising the ongoing atrocities’ in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

U.S. Closes Ports of Entry to Free up Personal and Redirect Them to Deal With Surge of Migrants

The most recent case is that of Lukeville, Arizona, and Sonoyta, Mexico, an area where crossings have recently increased

Latin Times

US border officials are closing a remote Arizona crossing because of overwhelming migrant arrivals

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will temporarily close south and northbound traffic to vehicle and pedestrians at the remote Lukeville, Arizona border crossing with Mexico

The Independent UK

Fix the Border Crisis by Making Legal Immigration Easier

Trying to block immigration by law just means that we’ll get it flowing around the law enforcers.

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Migrants Advocates Decry Conditions at Southern Border Camps, Call Them Open-Air Detention Centers

The issuance of wristbands and specific directives on where to be have raised questions about the nature of the centers

The Independent UK

US closes border crossing to vehicles and limits traffic at another in response to illegal entries

U.S. authorities say they are closing a Texas border crossing to vehicles and limiting traffic at an Arizona crossing to shift more resources to illegal entries

Texas Observer

Biden Quietly Gave Border Wall Contract to Company Used by Trump, Abbott

“Clearly DHS, under the Biden administration, has no more respect for border residents than it did under the Trump administration.”

The Independent UK

US government says it plans to go after legal goods tied to illegal fentanyl trade in new strategy

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid

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The Independent UK

Giraffe poop seized at airport from passenger who had strange plans for it

A woman on her way back from a trip to Kenya had an unusual memento from her time in Africa

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Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage

Congress' official watchdog says in a report that the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds

The Guardian - US

Biden administration sued over asylum appointment app that ‘does not work’

CBP One requirement creates unlawful hurdle for migrants on app riddled with glitches and indecipherable error messages, suit says

The Guardian - US

Republicans accused of cynical ploy in blaming fentanyl crisis on Biden

Critics say GOP leaders misrepresent asylum seekers as being behind smuggling of opioid that kills 70,000 Americans a year

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Border Patrol's story that people didn't see what they saw at the border deserves scrutiny

In April, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the Border Patrol had turned the space between two border walls along the San Diego-Tijuana border into a de facto open-air holding cell, keeping migrants there for days without blankets, food or adequate water supplies. This contradicted rules meant to ensure humane…

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Decrease in border crossings hasn’t slowed Republican criticism - Roll Call

A reported decline in unauthorized border crossings in the month since pandemic-era asylum restrictions expired hasn't slowed GOP criticism.

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