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The Mexico–United States border crisis is an ongoing migrant crisis in North America concerning the illegal migration of people into the United States. U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both referred to surges in migrants at the border as a "crisis" during their tenure. [ 7 ]
Gov. Greg Abbott, along with several fellow Republican governors, speaks at a Feb. 4 news conference in Eagle Pass about border policies. Abbott's push for more state control over international ...
A common cause of immigrant border deaths is drowning in canals, ditches, and the Rio Grande. [29] On January 14, 2024, a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, as a result of a standoff between the Texas Military Forces and the U.S. Border Patrol.
In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.
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 ...
The Sunland Park, New Mexico, fire department got a call on Tuesday about a group of people in the Rio Grande, at a section near El Paso, Texas, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where multiple ...
Mr Coale compared the crisis on the border to the showdown between Dwight D Eisenhower and the state of Arkansas over school desegregation in 1957. Then, as today, federal troops were sent to ...
In mid-September 2021, a large group of migrants, almost all from Haiti, attempted to enter the U.S. by crossing the shallow Rio Grande and seeking shelter beneath the bridge, where they lived in unhealthy conditions. The crowd grew from a few hundred to thousands within a week, initially overwhelming authorities.