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On March 24, 2021, Biden asked Vice President Kamala Harris to work with Mexico and Northern Triangle nations to curb the current flow of migrants to the border and develop a long-term solution. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] In June 2021, Harris visited Guatemala and Mexico in an attempt to address the root causes of migration from Central America to the ...
June 16, 2021 Greg Abbott announces border wall construction strategy [26] December 18, 2021 First section of border wall completed in Rio Grande City [27] March 14, 2022 Major General Tracy Norris is relieved of command [28] April 06, 2022 Bus and flight of immigrants to sanctuary city Washington, D.C., begin [29] July 07, 2022
Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs has compiled data including deaths on the Mexican side of the border area during the period from 1994 to 2000. The data shows 87 deaths in 1996, 149 in 1997, 329 in 1998, 358 in 1999, and 499 in 2000. [12] U.S. Border Patrol reported that 3,417 migrants were rescued in the fiscal year 2017. [13]
Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US ...
Elmer Maldonado spent a week in immigration custody with his 1-year-old son after crossing the Rio Grande through Texas to request asylum. One night, the Honduran father and son slept on the dirt ...
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Texas to remove a floating barrier from the Rio Grande placed there under the direction of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to deter illegal migrant crossings.
The Donna Texas Port of Entry is a border crossing between Mexico and the US, located at the Alliance International Bridge. [1] The bridge opened in 2010 to passenger vehicles only. While there are plans to open the bridge to commercial truck traffic, a date has not yet been set for that.
According to the International Boundary and Water Commission, [2] the continental border then follows the middle of the Rio Grande—according to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between the two nations, "along the deepest channel" (also known as the thalweg)—a distance of 2,020 km (1,255 mi) to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. [7] The ...