By Alan Gomez USA Today For the past few weeks, the attention of the White House and Congress has, rightfully, been on the tens of thousands of children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador flooding across the U.S. border. But as Washington debates the fastest and safest way to send those kids back home, it…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department launched a two-pronged approach to addressing the surge of illegal immigration from Central America, the Washington Examiner reports. The plan aims to help Central American governments address the growing humanitarian crisis and to speed up immigration cases. The Executive Office for Immigration Review will prioritize cases involving immigrants who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com About 150 Border Patrol agents are being sent to South Texas to help out authorities who are overwhelmed by a spike in illegal immigration from Central America, the Statesman reports. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the announcement on his third trip to the Border Patrol’s McAllen station in southernmost Texas in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Flights that were scheduled to begin flying Central American immigrants from Texas to California today to ease up on overcrowded conditions have been canceled, NBC News reports. What’s unclear is why the flights were stopped, said Ralph DeSio, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection. “This whole thing is in a very…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Throngs of Central American women and children are forced to stay in squalid, cramped conditions at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, the Washington Post reports. Video obtained by the Washington Post shows children sleeping on concrete floors in sweltering heat for days. The migrants are fed tacos and bologna sandwiches…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The cancerous violence of the Mexican drug cartels seems to be spreading into Central America where the drug networks are burrowing in, the Washington Post reports. And the presence of the cartels threatens to destabalize the countries that already face daunting crime figures, the Post reported. The Mexican cartels “are spreading…
