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California has rejected the federal government's initial plans for National Guard troops to the border because the work is considered too closely tied to immigration enforcement, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The state informed federal officials it will not allow its troops to fix and repair vehicles, operate remotely-controlled surveillance cameras to report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol, operate radios and provide "mission support," which can include clerical work, buying gas and handling payroll, according to officials with knowledge of the talks who spoke condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
Rep. Steve King, a crusader against illegal immigration, has emerged as the unlikely culprit blocking President Trump from a crackdown on Mexico 's border jumpers in the renegotiation of NAFTA. Mr. Trump has repeatedly tied the issues together, saying he will scrap the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement unless Mexico does more to stop the flow of people headed north across its territory.
In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, hundreds of people march along a levee toward the Rio Grande to oppose the wall the U.S. government wants to build on the river separating Texas and Mexico, in Mission, Texas. As hundreds of National Guard troops deploy to the U.S-Mexico border, residents of Texas' southernmost border region are fearful of the impact President Donald Trump's border wall will have.
The Latest on Donald Trump's effort to send up to 4,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking : Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says more than half of roughly 1,400 National Guard members the state wants to put on the U.S.-Mexico border are already on the job. Abbott said Thursday in the Texas border city of Weslaco that morale is high among troops.
We were surprised to read a Sun editorial that criticized the Safe Communities Act for something it doesn't do at all. The editorial argues that under existing law, police can hold undocumented immigrants for up to 12 hours in response to a detainer request from Immigration & Customs Enforcement .
The International border cuts through Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, right, and Nogales, Ariz., as seen Tuesday, April 10, 2018 from Nogales, Ariz. The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico on Monday committed 1,600 Guard members to the border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what he's called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime.
Some National Guard members have started arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border with more expected as federal government officials continue to discuss what they'll do about illegal immigration. Some National Guard members have started arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border with more expected as federal government officials continue to discuss what they'll do about illegal immigration.
The deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border at President Donald Trump's request was underway Tuesday with a gradual ramp-up of troops under orders to help curb illegal immigration. The Trump administration also announced that Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will visit this week a stretch of new border wall breaking ground in New Mexico, putting additional focus on what Trump has called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime.
Lost amid a flurry of Facebook announcements about privacy settings and data ac... . Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks to Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation Monday, April 9, 2018, in Phoenix.
Last week, the Fox News-addled grandpa who is legally the president of the United States got riled up, as he is wont to do, by his favorite channel's racist propaganda . "Fox & Friends" depicted a caravan of refugees from Central America as an invading army, rather than a group of people fleeing violence and seeking peaceful lives.
British health officials say the daughter of a R... . Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks to Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation Monday, April 9, 2018, in Phoenix.
Governor Doug Ducey speaks to Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to deployment to the Mexico border Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas have pledged to send about 1,600 National Guard members to the US-Mexico border, responding to President Donald Trump's plan to use the military to help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Texas governor Greg Abbott said he would add about 300 troops a week to the 250 members of the National Guard whose deployment was announced on Friday until the total number reaches at least 1,000 troops.
A 20-mile segment of old vehicle barriers will be replaced with a bollard-style fence. Except that Chief Patrol Agent Aaron A. Hull of the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector on Monday officially rebranded that kind of fence as a wall.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Monday that 225 members of the state's National Guard were heading to the U.S.-Mexico to support President Donald Trump's call for troops to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration. The Arizona troops were being sent after Texas announced Friday it would send 250 National Guard members and helicopters took the first of them to the border.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he supported sending the military to guard the U.S.-Mexico border. In an era where global crises are expelling immigrants from their homelands and forcing them to seek refuge elsewhere, this proposed militarization of the American border is an unjust, inhumane act.
President Donald Trump is sidestepping facts when it comes to the ethical questions swirling around Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt. Trump declares that a Capitol Hill condominium rented by Pruitt that had ties to a Washington lobbyist was appropriately priced at "market rate" - even though an EPA ethics attorney now acknowledges he wasn't given the full information when he reviewed the deal.
Hundreds of National Guard troops on Friday began deploying to the Rio Grande Valley to guard the Southwest border, after President Donald Trump last week urged their activation, saying our border is lawless and allows anyone to come through. We've played this song before, in 2014 when then Gov. Rick Perry activated 1,000 National Guard troops to our region as an uptick in illegal immigrants swelled through South Texas.
Antonio Gomez and members of the pro-immigrant rights group Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles , demand comprehensive immigration reform down the street from Rep. Adam Schiff's office in Pasadena Tuesday, December 15, 2009. The group of 40 were on a bus tour to members of Congress as a bill was being introduced that would reform immigration policy.
Man, 67, is KILLED and four firefighters are hurt in huge blaze in 50th floor residential apartment at Trump Tower: Flames engulf several stories of president's New York home as burning debris falls on Fifth Avenue - The fire erupted on the 50th floor was a fourth alarm with well over 200 firefighters and EMS personnel on the scene Bill Maher defends Ingraham: Parkland student calling for a boycott is wrong - Comedian and progressive talk show host Bill Maher defended Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham on Friday, arguing with guests on his HBO show that a boycott led by Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg was un-American.
Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez denounced immigration authorities for arresting an illegal immigrant inside a New York City courthouse on Friday, saying the controversial tactic "has no place" in the city. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbed Panamanian national Diogenes Pinzon as he walked out of an eighth-floor courtroom in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday morning, reported the New York Daily News, citing court officials.