[AnNahar] U.S. authorities detained or blocked more than 144,000 Customs and Border Protection officials said most of the
The total number of
"We are in a full-blown emergency. The system is broken," said CBP Acting Commissioner John Sanders.
The numbers were released hours before top Mexican officials were to meet with Vice President Mike Pence over President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's threat to impose steep tariffs on Mexican goods starting Monday if it doesn't do something to keep the
Sanders said there had been no let-up in the numbers of border crossers in the first days of June, and that the Border Patrol now has nearly 19,000
Officials said that the pace of arrivals of undocumented
Sanders said more were arriving in large groups, including one single group of 1,036 which arrived in El Paso, Texas on May 29, the day before Trump announced his tariff threat.
Underlining the extent of the crisis, officials said that other nationalities from around the world are joining the trek from Central America to the southern US border.
That included a single group of 117 people from sub-Saharan Africa, including Angolans and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ians, detained at Del Rio, Texas last week.