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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 ]
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]
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 ...
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 estimated 14,000 mainly Haitian migrants that ended up in Del Rio, Texas, are now heading back to Mexico to avoid being deported by the US.
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 ...
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.