Dozens of asylum-seeking migrants who traveled more than a month from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border are defiantly pledging to remain outside an immigrant processing center until they are admitted into the country.
President Trump’s pledge to prevent undocumented immigrants out of the U.S. has hit a major snag as arrests surge along the Southwest border.
A man who crashed an SUV while trying to elude Border Patrol agents, injuring himself and six other undocumented immigrants, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday.
Border Patrol agents have long abided by informal agreement to allow migrants to seek medical attention at a camp in the Arizona desert to prevent more deaths of people crossing the border.
Federal agents arrested 153 undocumented immigrants and others throughout Texas during a 12-day operation that ended Friday.
The Justice Department warned sanctuary cities and counties on Monday that they will not receive federal grants if the continue to fail to work with the crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
More than 25 offenders who were reporting for community service Sunday morning in Fort Worth, Texas, were detained by ICE agents over undocumented immigration statuses.
As a candidate, Donald Trump pledged “zero tolerance for criminal aliens,” a stance, stripped of its tough-guy rhetoric, that might not have represented too drastic a departure from President Barack Obama’s prioritization of undocumented felons for deportation.
