U.S. President Barack Obama is talking Wednesday about the country’s contentious immigration policies in Texas, the state where thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America are illegally flooding into the United States. Obama plans to meet with local officials and faith leaders in Dallas about the influx of children, which he has described as a […]
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $3.7 billion to address an immigration crisis that has seen tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America cross illegally into the United States. In a letter Tuesday to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, Obama said the funding would support air surveillance and other enhanced border […]
CAPITOL HILL — A political battle is brewing in Washington over the dramatic surge of unaccompanied children who are crossing the southwest border into the United States. Republicans blame the Obama administration for what they describe as lenient and confusing immigration policies, while Democrats say the children are fleeing extreme poverty and drug-related violence. The […]
CHICAGO — Two Mexican nationals wanted for separate crimes committed in Mexico were deported Friday and turned over to Mexican law enforcement authorities to face criminal charges. These deportations were conducted by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Chicago. Armando Ramirez-Vazquez, 32, and Jesus Gloria-Arreaga, 47, were […]