U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday paused new 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods exported to the United States for a month after speaking with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sheinbaum said she would dispatch 10,000 National Guard troops to try to curb the flow of the deadly […]
One economist warned the tariffs would amount to the “largest tax increase… that has ever been imposed” on working-class families. The trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump launched over the weekend by announcing sweeping new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China drew intense criticism from experts and analysts across the ideological spectrum, including those who believe […]
The defendant was arrested and deported to the U.S. in 2021. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The leader of an extensive transnational drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Wednesday for running a conspiracy that trafficked vast amounts of dangerous drugs to Alaska. According to court documents, Miguel Baez Guevara, a.k.a. “Javi,” 41, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and other U.S. efforts to stop asylum access significantly impacted immigration policy and enforcement in the United States in 2022. In various reports, U.S. border officials and immigration advocates say border numbers reflect the deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries that drive people to come to the southern border of […]