Syrian Kurds issued a “general mobilization” call in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey on Wednesday, as Ankara poised for an imminent invasion of the area in a major escalation in the war-ravaged country.
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Julio Lopez and his family faced a decision when they reached the U.S. border to seek asylum: cross illegally or follow government instructions to stay in Mexico, even if it meant waiting for months. The Salvadoran family waited to make their case, only to find out the Trump administration is no longer allowing in people like them.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to create a new government watchdog tasked with fielding and investigating complaints of abuse of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Trump administration plans to divert $3.6 billion away from military construction projects toward the president’s long-promised border wall.
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Lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge in Texas Thursday that the nation’s lawmakers, not its courts, should determine whether or not the president’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border constitutes an abuse of power, as critics have alleged in multiple lawsuits playing out across the country.
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Russian border guards have seized more than 4,000 endangered wild tortoises after they were smuggled out of Kazakhstan, officials said.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the Department of Homeland Security for failing to respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests seeking documents about the agency’s warrantless installation of GPS tracking systems on vehicles at ports of entry.
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A duty-free gas station situated near the Ambassador Bridge on the U.S.-Canadian border must comply with U.S. gasoline volatility requirements, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe EU on Tuesday rejected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand to scrap the Irish border backstop plan to achieve a Brexit deal, saying he had offered no workable alternative.
Read moreIndia and Pakistan exchanged “heavy” cross-border fire on Saturday, after New Delhi’s move to strip the restive Kashmir region of its autonomy prompted a rare meeting of the UN Security Council.
Read moreU.S. Customs and Border Protection says a new 2,500-person holding facility will open Friday in a remote corner of West Texas as the agency attempts to deal with what it calls an unprecedented influx of immigrants at the southern border.
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An Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo marked its first anniversary on Thursday with two more cases in the densely-populated frontier city of Goma and accusations by Kinshasa that Rwanda had rushed to shutter its border in response to the crisis.
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How to keep the Irish border free-flowing has proved to be the toughest issue to resolve in negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Read moreThe federal government continues to separate families at the U.S.-Mexico border despite a court order barring the policy – over 900 children in the last year, the ACLU said Tuesday.
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The federal policy carried out at the U.S-Mexico border that turns away asylum seekers to discourage immigrants from coming to the country was recognized by a California federal judge on Monday as likely being a violation of international law.
Read moreThough immigration to the southern border of the United States slowed markedly in June, big numbers have arrived this year, straining government resources and resulting in dangerously overcrowded detention facilities.
Read moreAttorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a federal judge Thursday afternoon to ban the practice of border agents searching electronic devices without a warrant.
Read moreIn a volatile interrogation at the House on Thursday, the leader of the Oversight Committee pushed America’s head of Homeland Security on the government’s ability to reunite immigrant families that have been separated at the border.
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Expounding on a report that detailed a “ticking time bomb” at detention centers on the southern border, a Department of Homeland Security watchdog Monday told Congress that overcrowding at federal facilities has reached unprecedented levels.
Read moreDuring its first-ever hearing on the subject, the House Oversight Committee met Thursday with experts and survivors of childhood trauma, a day after an immigrant mother gave emotional testimony about the death of her baby daughter following their stay at a detention center.
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