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RECENT NEWS

Yuma Border Patrol struggling with new migrants from all over the world
KGUN, channel 9 News Sept 14, 2022
www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/yuma-border-patrol-struggling-with-new-migrants-from-all-over-the-world
2 busloads of migrants dropped off near VP Harris' residence

AP/  Arizona Daily Sun   September 15, 2022
azdailysun.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/2-busloads-of-migrants-dropped-off-near-vp-harris-residence/article_5b7dab08-5bf5-53e9-9f6b-6c95141acfa4.html
Video captures migrants in camo scaling Arizona wall after Harris says border secure Sept 13, 2022www.foxnews.com/us/video-captures-migrants-camo-scaling-arizona-wall-harris-says-border-secure
(although we do not support fox news and the attitudes they promote, the video is compelling)

Thousands of migrants are pouring into NYC from Texas, straining a shaky shelter system. When will it hit a tipping point?Josephine Stratman
8/31/2022 7:00am 
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-of-migrants-are-pouring-into-nyc-from-texas-straining-a-shaky-shelter-system-when-will-it-hit-a-tipping-point/ar-AA11iELb  
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Mexican citizen convicted of paying Border Patrol agent to smuggle migrants to Phoenix
By: Phil Villarreal
Posted at 10:22 AM, Aug 15, 2022  and last updated 2022-08-15 13:22:38-04TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A man accused of coordinating a human smuggling operation pleaded guilty to bribing a former U.S. Border Patrol agent.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, 36-year-old Mexican resident Luis Alfredo Quintero-Gonzalez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and alien smuggling.
His federal court sentencing is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 25.
Quintero-Gonzalez paid former U.S. Border Patrol agent Carlos Passapera thousands of dollars in bribes when smuggling undocumented immigrants into the U.S. between August and December 2019, per the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Passapera would pick up the migrants along the border near Lukeville, Ariz. and smuggle them through Border Patrol checkpoints to deliver them to Phoenix.
At least eight migrants took part in the conspiracy.
Passapera faces charges for his involvement in the conspiracy case and has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set for Monday, April 3.
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OLDER NEWS

​Border crisis hits NYC: Adams calls on Biden as shelters overrun with migrants July 19, 2022
nypost.com/2022/07/19/adams-calls-on-biden-as-nyc-shelters-overrun-with-migrants/

Immigration detention facility near empty in California July 4, 2022
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/immigration-detention-facility-near-empty-in-california/

51 Migrants Found dead in Truck
abc7.com/san-antonio-migrant-deaths-migrants-found-dead-truck-texas-smuggling/12003507/
There will be a vigil for these and other migrant fatalities on Thursday, June 30  Contact sam.southside@gmail.com for details
Coins depicting Border Patrol agent grabbing Haitian migrant trigger investigation  - June 16, 2022
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www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-06-16/coins-border-patrol-haitian-immigrants
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Feds Plan to Dump Immigrants In Cities Away From Border - June 19, 2022
nypost.com/2022/06/19/feds-plan-to-dump-immigrants-in-cities-away-from-border/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

Number of Migrants Crossing Border Hits Another Record, With Surges In Migration By Nationalities Once Rarely Seen - June 16, 2022

www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/number-migrants-crossing-border-hits-another-record-surges-migration-n-rcna34030-

A Decade of DACA:A Middle-Class Launching Pad For Thousands Is At Risk - June 14, 2022
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/decade-daca-middle-class-launching-pad-thousands-still-risk-rcna33564

Migrants Are Falling Off Trump's 30-Foot Steel Border Wall into the U.S. And Going To The Hospital - June 14, 2022    
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-are-falling-trumps-30-foot-steel-border-wall-us-breaking-legs-rcna33301    ​
​Trump administration lays out plan to reunite 2500 immigrant children with their families
CBS News
The Trump administration said in a court filing Friday that it has identified 2,551 children between the ages of 5 and 17 in their custody who could ...
 
Even with a green card, an immigrant can be deported under new guidelines
Miami Herald
In those cases, immigration officials will have expanded authority to issue ... The main public benefits that immigrants with legal residence permits, ...
​Fighting for the Life of Migrants in the Sonoran Desert (Photo Essay)

Body found in desert near Benson
Trump Administration Admits They've Lost Track of Roughly 20 Percent of Toddlers' Parents 
 "During a conference call with reporters and U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw on Friday afternoon, government officials acknowledged that as many as 20 percent of the youngest children ripped from their parents on Donald Trump's orders won't be reunified with their families any time soon." 
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Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried in Immigration Detention and Didn't Get the Care They Needed 
Ema O'Connor and Nidhi Prakash, BuzzFeed 
Excerpt: "Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused."