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National
Blake Masters, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, speaks to supporters during a campaign event in Tucson.

Talk of 'invasion' moves from the fringe to the mainstream of GOP immigration message

Aug 03, 2022
With midterm elections looming, many Republican candidates have embraced increasingly extreme language about immigration. Immigrant advocates worry that such rhetoric stokes fear and hate.
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Business
Commercial trucks wait to cross the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in Pharr, Texas, last week, before Gov. Greg Abbott lifted his order requiring additional inspections of trucks arriving from Mexico.

A key Texas bridge lost $1 billion per week during governor's slowdown

Apr 20, 2022
Gov. Greg Abbott's rule imposing safety inspections at the border did "nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigration or illegal drugs," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told NPR.
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Arts & Life
Tanya Aguiñiga worked with indigenous communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico and in Alaska, but always felt drawn back to the border.

Artists win awards for highlighting life on the border and reclaiming African art

Dec 03, 2021
Tanya Aguiñiga's art explores what happens to people when they cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Sanford Biggers' works challenge the 'black-washing' of African history.
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Books
The Rio Grande is seen from the International Bridge near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border where a father and daughter drowned attempting to cross into the United States in 2019, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23-month-old da

Poetry inspired by a viral photo of drowned migrants wins the National Book Award

Nov 18, 2021
Photos of a father and his young daughter, drowned in the Rio Grande, underlined the deadly risks of the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Martín Espada drew on them for his book Floaters.
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National
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is one of a few GOP governors who say migrants are the source of rising COVID-19 rates.

Some Republicans Blame Migrants For COVID-19 Surges. Doctors Say They're Scapegoating

Aug 10, 2021
Some Republicans are blaming the latest surge in COVID-19 cases on migrants crossing the southern border. But many doctors disagree, saying the politicians are just looking to divert attention.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct a training exercise in the Anapra area, in front of the wall that divides Sunland Park, N.M., from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Amid Coronavirus Concerns Pentagon To Send Troops To U.S. Borders With Mexico, Canada

Mar 26, 2020
Troops will be sent to the northern and southern U.S. borders as the spread of the coronavirus grows. Last week, the Trump administration ordered partial closures of those borders.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
A security guard stands at the El Chapparal Port of Entry on the U.S.-Mexico Border in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, late last month. The two countries are said to be working out a deal to close their border to non-essential crossings.

U.S., Mexico Planning To Restrict Border Crossings To Stem Pandemic

Mar 20, 2020

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a tweet that he is working with his Mexican counterpart "on travel restrictions that balance protecting our citizens from further transmission of #COVID19."

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National
Principal T.J. Funderburg welcomes his mostly immigrant students during morning assembly at Cactus Elementary School.

Unskilled Jobs Draw Migrants, Changing Face Of Small Towns Across America

Nov 04, 2019
A meatpacking town in the Texas Panhandle is a magnet for immigrants who will do unpopular jobs. The once majority-white county has adjusted to its more diverse population.
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National
Pedestrians on the Puerta Mexico bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande, wait to enter Brownsville, Texas, at a legal port of entry in Matamoros, Mexico, in August.

ACLU Calls On Homeland Security To Stop Turning Away Pregnant Asylum-Seekers

Oct 05, 2019
Attorneys for the organization say vulnerable populations are supposed to be excluded from the groups of asylum-seekers being sent back to Mexico to wait for their U.S. immigration court hearings.
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World
Guatemalan migrant Lety Pérez embraces her son, Anthony, while pleading with a Mexican National Guard member to let them cross into the United States, near Juárez, Mexico, on Monday.

Photo Of Mother Pleading With Mexican Soldier Draws Attention To Migrant Patrol

Jul 24, 2019
In what a former Mexican official called the "pic du jour," a Mexican National Guard member stands in the way of a Guatemalan woman and her son who are trying to reach the U.S. border.
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Law
Larry Mitchell Hopkins appears in a police booking photo taken in Las Cruces, N.M., on April 20. Hopkins made his initial court appearance Monday, on charges of possession of firearms by a felon.

Alleged Leader Of Border Militia Facing Federal Firearms Charges In New Mexico

Apr 22, 2019
Larry Hopkins has a felony record dating back 23 years. Federal officials are not saying why he's charged now with offenses committed in 2017.
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