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Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Border Patrol has made fewer than 1,800 apprehensions per day over the past week, a major decline following the implementation of new asylum restrictions that significantly cut humanitarian protections for those who cross the border illegally. Migrant encounters along the southern border are down 55% since the […]
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — The man accused of murdering a Maryland woman in 2023 is an undocumented immigrant who was arrested and expelled at least three times, according to an ICE official. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez is accused of murdering Rachel Morin in August of 2023. He was arrested last week by authorities […]
NYPD (NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park last week, according to police. Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, a 25-year-old Ecuadorian migrant who entered the U.S. illegally in June 2021, was picked up overnight after community members recognized him from a photo and […]
NYPD (NEW YORK) — A person of interest is in custody in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens, New York park last week, police sources told ABC News. The person, an Ecuadorian migrant who entered the U.S. in 2021, was picked up overnight after community members recognized him from a […]
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — There were 302,000 encounters along the southwest border in December, marking the highest monthly total ever recorded, sources told ABC News. Sources stressed the numbers are preliminary and could change. The numbers — a hot-button election year topic — come as the Justice Department threatened to sue the state […]
Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A retired veteran hired to work security for migrants being bused out of Texas alleges he witnessed pervasive mistreatment during the long trips to other cities. David Dillard claims he saw migrants being misled about their destinations amid “disgusting and inhuman” conditions on […]
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is doubling down on strategies to contain migration as unauthorized border crossings surge across the southwest. The number of migrants apprehended in a single day by the U.S. Border Patrol approached an estimated 9,000 on Wednesday, according to officials who declined to be identified to discuss preliminary […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Six people were hit by a car Sunday outside a store in North Carolina in what authorities said they suspected was an intentional assault on a group of migrant workers. At around 1:17 p.m. local time, an unknown driver of an older model, mid-size, black, sport utilitiy vehicle with […]
Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida officials confirmed on Tuesday that they organized two flights carrying migrants from Texas to California in recent days. It’s the latest example of a controversial strategy under Gov. Ron DeSantis, who says he wants to spotlight what he calls the failures of southern border policies — as migrant […]
Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — According to Honduras’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Enrique Reina, 17-year-old Honduran minor Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoz died in a shelter located in Safety Harbor, Florida. “The Government of Honduras, through the Embassy in Washington, is in contact with the family and has requested that [Office of […]
