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Operation Lone Star ( OLS) is a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department along the United States–Mexico border in southern Texas. The operation started in 2021 and is ongoing. According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the operation is intended to counter a rise in illegal immigration, the ...
Ken Paxton. On January 11, 2024, the Texas National Guard took control of Shelby Park, a 47-acre (19 ha) area of parkland in the town of Eagle Pass, along the Rio Grande river, which separates the United States from Mexico, after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an emergency declaration to close the park. In his declaration, Abbott cited the ...
The Mexico–United States border crisis is an ongoing migrant crisis in North America concerning the migration of illegal immigrants from Latin America and other countries [ 4] including China [ 5][ 6] through Mexico and into the United States . Migrant encounters at the Mexico–U.S. border began to surge in late 2020, reaching a record ...
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he plans to send 1,000 National and State guard members to Texas “relatively shortly” to help place razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border ...
January 31, 2024 at 2:43 AM. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has witnessed over 6 million migrants entering the United States from the southern border under the Biden administration, and a ...
John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman. January 9, 2024 at 11:26 AM. EAGLE PASS, Texas — The Biden administration's homeland security chief came to the Texas-Mexico border Monday to witness ...
Non-Mexicans arriving on the border are overwhelmingly Central American nationals. The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under ...
Seen from an aerial view, immigrants walk along the U.S.-Mexico border wall after crossing the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas on 1 February 2024 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (Getty Images)