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Proposed settlement is first step in securing Colorado River water for 3 Native American tribes
LEUPP, Ariz. (AP) — A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress has taken a major step forward with its introduction to the Navajo Nation Council. The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado […]
Advocates worry migrants ‘being exploited’ after getting dropped off by Border Patrol
"There are no permits here, these sellers are just ripping off the migrants," said Carlos. "They are selling the cigarettes and SIM cards for 10 times what you normally pay at a retail store."
AMLO denies stonewalling DEA visas, suggests US address fentanyl demand
The president of Mexico denies his country is stonewalling visas for U.S. drug agents trying to stem the flow of fentanyl into their country. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also suggests Americans focus on addressing the root causes of drug addiction in their communities.
Texas officials fighting to keep control of Fronton Island
(NewsNation) — Now that the Texas government says Fronton Island, a 170-acre body of land surrounded by the Rio Grande in Texas is under their control, they are now battling to keep it. Cartel members were previously running rampant on Fronton Island for months, with images showing armed operatives, some wearing body armor, traversing through […]
Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an ‘army,’ but they tell another story
NEW YORK (AP) — It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood. When a potential employer pulled up near the street corner, home to a Chinese bakery and pharmacy, Wang and dozens of other men swarmed around […]
US dedicates $60 million to saving water along the Rio Grande as flows shrink and demands grow
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is dedicating $60 million over the next few years to projects along the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and West Texas to make the river more resilient in the face of climate change and growing demands. The funding announced Friday by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland marks […]
Panama’s next president says he’ll try to shut down one of the world’s busiest migration routes
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the U.S. border. President-elect José Raúl Mulino says he will shut down a migration route used by more than 500,000 people last year. Until now, Panama has helped speedily bus the […]
El Paso Fire crews recover body from Lower Valley canal
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso Fire Department’s Water Rescue Team recovered a body from a Lower Valley canal late Saturday night, May 11, according to the department’s X account. Crews initially responded to reports of a person in a canal at about 9:30 p.m. along the 10000 block of Southside Road. That […]
Report: Border Patrol officials under investigation after Mexico trip for tequila collaboration
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez and another Border Patrol official are under investigation following an attempt to collaborate with a Mexican tequila maker, NBC News reported. The two leaders were seen partying in Jalisco, Mexico with distiller Francisco Javier González of the Tequila Casa de los González, […]
After leading April in migrant encounters, San Diego Sector seeing May numbers soar
"We ought to be able to manage the numbers that are coming across," he said. "One of the other things we are seeing in San Diego County is boat landings, boats just being beached up on our beaches -- about four per week, and about a dozen people jump into a neighborhood, we don’t know who they are, where they are going or what their intentions are.”
Former aide and consultant close to US Rep. Cuellar plead guilty and agree to aid investigation
A top former aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and a political and business consultant have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to help the Democrat congressman from Texas launder more than $200,000 in bribes and to assist prosecutors in a federal criminal investigation, according to court documents unsealed this week.
South Texas border city preparing to run out of water by 2044
Water is something on the top of everyone's minds here in this South Texas border city. A study commissioned by the City of Laredo in 2022 estimated that this city of 250,000 residents will run out of water by 2044 and that has residents scared.
Mexico tightens travel rules on Peruvians in a show of visa diplomacy to slow migration to US
BOULEVARD, Calif. (AP) — Julia Paredes believed her move to the United States might be now or never. Mexico was days from requiring visas for Peruvian visitors. If she didn’t act quickly, she would have to make a far more perilous, surreptitious journey over land to settle with her sister in Dallas. Mexico began requiring […]
China and US resume cooperation on deportation as Chinese immigrants rush in from southern border
WASHINGTON (AP) — Beijing and Washington have quietly resumed cooperation on the deportation of Chinese immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, as the two countries are reestablishing and widening contacts following their leaders’ meeting in California late last year. After China suspended cooperation in August 2022, the United States saw a drastic surge in […]
DOJ and civil rights groups sue Iowa over law that lets police arrest migrants
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa on Thursday over its new law that would give the state the authority to arrest and deport some migrants, making it the second lawsuit filed in a single day that seeks to block legislation passed earlier this year by state lawmakers. Both the Justice Department’s lawsuit […]
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