Tag: Migrants
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How border towns view the immigration debate
How border towns view the immigration debate – CBS News Watch CBS News The southern border has become a key issue in the 2024 election. Omar Villafranca traveled 1,700 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border to see how people closest to the issue view the debate. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking…
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Harris backing Biden’s asylum crackdown in border visit
Harris backing Biden’s asylum crackdown in border visit – CBS News Watch CBS News Vice President Kamala Harris visited the southern border Friday for the first time as a presidential candidate. Harris is using the trip to push back against former President Donald Trump’s criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of immigration. Ed O’Keefe has…
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Finding missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, the world’s deadliest land migration route
Ajo, Arizona — The search began with a prayer in the early morning hours, as the sun emerged from the mountains that adorn this picturesque, yet often deadly, landscape near the U.S.-Mexico border. It was the third search that a grassroots group of volunteers known as the Armadillos had embarked on this summer with the…
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How the Haitian migrant community of Springfield, Ohio, got caught in a political firestorm
Springfield, Ohio — At the St. Vincent de Paul Society community center in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants receive food and clothes and get help finding work. “They’re here and they’re our responsibility,” said Kaci Rollins, who runs the community center. Rollins tells CBS News that the supplies are an open-armed welcome for asylum seekers fleeing…
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JD Vance repeats baseless claim Haitian immigrants are eating pets as Ohio officials say there is no evidence
Officials in Springfield, Ohio, said Monday they have not received any credible reports of Haitian immigrants abducting and eating pets, despite viral claims on social media that have been amplified by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and others. References to the claim, which allege Haitian migrants have been eating cats, as well as ducks…
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Texas Gov. Abbott instructs hospitals to collect data on patients’ immigration status
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to people living in the U.S. illegally. Through an executive order, Abbott directed Texas hospitals to compile data on inpatient discharges and emergency visits…