border crisis

Budd introduces Build the Wall Now Act

February 15, 2023 Matt Mercer

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Budd has introduced his first bill since taking office in January, which would require the restart of border wall construction, remove all legal impediments to construction, and unlock $2.1 billion […]

Tillis part of bipartisan border visit

January 11, 2023 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — Eight U.S. senators traveled this week to the southern border to see the current conditions first-hand. North Carolina U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis was joined by Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), John Cornyn (R-TX) Mark Kelly […]

High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

December 19, 2022 Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers but the brief order leaves open the prospect that the restrictions in place since the coronavirus […]

Arizona Gov. Ducey stacks containers on border at term’s end

December 13, 2022 The Associated Press

SAN RAFAEL VALLEY, Arizona — Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s remote eastern boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov. […]

US government tells Arizona to remove border containers

October 18, 2022 Anita Snow, Associated Press

PHOENIX — The federal government is demanding the state remove double-stacked shipping containers placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying they are unauthorized and violate U.S. law. The Cocopah Indian […]

2 busloads of migrants dropped off near VP Harris’ residence

September 15, 2022 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in residential Washington on Thursday morning in the bitter political battle over the Biden administration’s […]

Florida flies illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard

September 15, 2022 Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration’s […]

Biden’s illegal immigration woes hit competitive congressional race

September 1, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Illegal Immigration looks to be one of the hot-button issues in the upcoming midterm election cycle after federal officials reported that for the first time ever the number of illegal immigrants arrested at […]

Arizona won’t wait for feds, starts filling border wall gaps

August 19, 2022 The Associated Press

PHOENIX — Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants […]

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US to fill border wall gaps at open area near Yuma, Arizona

August 5, 2022 Anita Snow, Associated Press

PHOENIX — The Biden administration on Thursday authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma that has become one of the busiest corridors for illegal crossings. […]