Maria Mercado, who is from Colombia but arrived from Ecuador, gets emotional as she sees that her 1pm appointment was canceled on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app, as she and her family wait at the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico on Monday, Jan. 20. 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s promises to beef up security at the southern border with Mexico began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration and marking another wild swing in White House policy on the divisive issue.
By Lizbeth Diaz, Laura Gottesdiener and Alexandra Ulmer TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico,
WASHINGTON (AP) — A wide-ranging series of steps that President Donald Trump has promised to take to beef up security at the southern border began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration.
Donald Trump won the election largely on the promise of cracking down on border crossings. When he takes office next week, he will be inheriting a quiet border, with crossings plummeting for the past few months.
The CBP One app went offline as President Donald Trump returned to power. The move is likely a precursor to Trump's immigration policies.
The initial blow came with the end of CBP One, stranding thousands of asylum seekers with and without appointments
El primer golpe llegó con el fin de CBP One, dejando varados a miles de solicitantes de asilo con y sin citas.
Bernice King, the daughter of late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., says the simultaneous occurrence of MLK Day and Inauguration Day this year is an opportunity to reflect on her father’s legacy. “It’s wonderful that this occurs on the King holiday, the inauguration, because it reminds us of King,” King, the youngest of…
By Ted Hesson and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON/PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday kicked off his sweeping immigration crackdown, tasking the U.S. military with aiding border security,
They came from Haiti, Venezuela and around the world, pulling small rolling suitcases crammed with clothing and stuffed animals to occupy their children. They clutched cellphones showing that after months of waiting they had appointments — finally — to legally enter the United States.
The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.