Illegal Immigration
Florida Flies 2 Planeloads of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
About 50 migrants unexpectedly arrived by plane on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, local officials said, escalating a tactic in which Republican-led states have shipped busloads of migrants to liberal bastions like Washington and New York to protest the significant rise in illegal immigration under President Biden. The migrant group, which included children, arrived on two […]
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G.O.P. Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast
About 15 faith and community-based groups in Washington have opened their doors to the migrants, offering them meals, showers and hygiene items during daylight hours. But the increase in the frequency of buses, from two to four a day to now sometimes eight, has depleted donations and exceeded capacity, and many volunteers have contracted Covid-19, […]
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Pushing an Immigration Conspiracy Theory, While Courting Latinos
Brian Hughes, the co-founder and associate director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University, said he was not surprised to see the far right cheering Mr. Masters on. “If a candidate is pointing toward the ideas that make up replacement theory, he or she doesn’t have to spell it out […]
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Border Patrol Agents Face Disciplinary Action for Treatment of Migrants
WASHINGTON — Four Border Patrol agents who were among those responding to Black migrants crossing the southwestern border in Del Rio, Texas, in September are facing disciplinary action for inappropriately using or threatening to use force against them, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday after an internal investigation. The aggressive treatment partly stemmed […]
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He Had a Dark Secret. It Changed His Best Friend’s Life.
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. On his first night at the Brooklyn homeless shelter, Tin Chin met his best friend. Estranged from his family, Mr. Chin was alone, stewing in anger and shame over all he had lost and how low he […]
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More Mexicans Are Migrating to the U.S. After a Decade-Long Drop
SAN MARCOS ATESQUILAPAN, Mexico — The teenage brothers were among some 80 young men who had left San Marcos in the last two months, a growing exodus from this impoverished village of 1,600 that sits in the lush mountains of Veracruz state. On Monday at around 11 a.m., Yovani jubilantly texted his father from the […]
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Supreme Court Sides With Biden’s Efforts to End ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Biden administration may rescind a Trump-era immigration program that forces certain asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority in the 5-to-4 ruling, said an immigration law gave the president discretion […]
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Biden and Latin American Leaders Announce Migration Deal
LOS ANGELES — President Biden and leaders of Latin American countries signed a new agreement on Friday to confront the consequences of mass migration, making specific numerical pledges to allow more people fleeing political and economic strife to cross their borders. The agreement, called the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, commits the United […]
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Illegal Immigration Is Down, Changing the Face of California Farms
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. GONZALES, Calif. — It looks like a century-old picture of farming in California: a few dozen Mexican men on their knees, plucking radishes from the ground, tying them into bundles. But the crews on Sabor Farms’ radish […]
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