President Trump will sign a series of executive orders designed to beef up security at the southern border by relying more on the U.S. military.
The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers
President Joe Biden suspended the program on his first day in office in January 2021.
In the letter, Governor Sisolak warns that lifting Title 42 without a detailed plan in place would spark a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. and Mexico border.
President Trump’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy is known informally as “Remain in Mexico” and was introduced in January 2019.
Citing a threat of the coronavirus from Mexico, the Trump administration has banned hundreds of thousands of people from crossing the southern border with emergency measures that prohibit nonessential traffic and reject asylum seekers without a hearing.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted unanimously Friday to suspend an order it issued earlier in the day to block a central pillar of the Trump administration’s policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.
Australia’s government is defending its plan to send citizens evacuated from the epicenter of China’s new coronavirus emergency to a remote island.
The Trump administration is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers detained by immigration officials and will add the information to a massive FBI database used by law enforcement hunting for criminals.
The Trump administration has begun enforcing radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum as tens of thousands of migrants wait on the Mexican border, seeking refuge.
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