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Veteran leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a “rapacious” elite in a country struggling with corruption, chronic poverty and gang violence on the doorstep of the United States. Backed by a gigantic Mexican flag, the 65-year-old took the oath of office in the lower house of Congress, pledging to bring about a “radical” rebirth of Mexico to overturn what he called a disastrous legacy of decades of “neo-liberal” governments. “The government will no longer be a committee at the service of a rapacious minority,” said the new president, who is...

Full title: Gavin Newsom Wants to Pull CA's National Guard From the Border...Because They're More Useful Elsewhere California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom has long been at odds with President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Now, he's looking at pulling the state's National Guard from the border because he believes their services can be better used elsewhere. “I have every desire to pull those Guardsmen back and assist in other capacities,” Newsom said . “It’s my intention today, but every day conditions change, and so I want to caveat that with that understanding.” Newsom also said he planned to discuss the border situation...

Tijuana(Mexico): Stranded on the US-Mexican border with little hope of entering the United States, thousands of people from a migrant caravan are letting go of their American dream and settling on a Mexican one. Under a work programme set up by the Mexican government, 2,250 migrants in the northern border city of Tijuana -- out of the roughly 6,000 who trekked here in the caravan from Central America -- have signed up to get jobs, visas and social security benefits in Mexico. The programme is designed to induce them to stay here, rather than press on to the United States,...

If wrecking American sovereignty, lowering wages, and increasing the public welfare load aren’t reasons enough to oppose the influx of migrant invaders sitting in Tijuana, here is another: At least 30 percent of them are sick with communicable diseases they might spread to Americans in schools, hospitals, welfare and employment offices, and other public places.And by “sick,” officials in Mexico don’t mean the common cold. They mean serious disease. Some of the migrants are turning around and heading home after months of traveling through Mexico, as The New American reported today. But with a third of the 6,000 or so...

The false leftist narrative that suggests President Trump is a uniquely evil president because American Border Patrol agents hurled a few tear gas canisters at invading migrants continues its amusing collapse.Trump is hardly unique in using tear gas and pepper bombs to protect the border from an invading horde. Another American president, one hailed as a Messiah by the same people hurling scatalogical invective at Trump, did the same thing.His name was Barack Hussein Obama, and given the data published by The Daily Caller, he might have been known as the Gasser in Chief. Or maybe we might call him...

Texas’ attorney general sued the San Antonio police chief Friday for what he said are violations of the state’s immigration law targeting “sanctuary cities” and sought millions of dollars in sanctions. The lawsuit Ken Paxton filed in state court was a rare enforcement action of Senate Bill 4, passed last year by the Texas Legislature and mostly upheld by a federal appeals court. SB4 is one of the toughest state laws targeting illegal immigration. It prohibited law enforcement agencies from refusing “detainer” requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, doing anything to stop an officer from asking about a suspect’s...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio, the municipal police chief, and other officials for alleged violations of the sanctuary city law commonly known as “SB4.” The lawsuit stems from a December 2017 incident where the San Antonio police chief released a group of illegal immigrants found in the back of a tractor-trailer before proper officials could screen them

Video at link. Fox contributor calls migrants 'benign, suffering civilian crowd'Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera has an alternative to tear-gas agents used along the southern border to stop rock-throwing migrants: “the facts of life.” ~snip~ “These are innocent people seeking a better life,” Mr. Rivera said of thousands of migrants encamped in Baja, California. “What you don’t do is send 6,000 GIs with fixed bayonets at the border. Here’s what you do. You send Spanish-speaking ambassadors to the crowd. You explain to them that they are not going to be able to rush the border. You explain to them the...

Contractors will begin building seven border wall gates today in Cameron County (around Brownsville, Texas).

A new study on Central American migrants by the University of Southern California, hardly a conservative source, finds that caravan migrants and others like them are overwhelmingly job seekers and people looking to join their families. What they're not is people fleeing violence and persecution. So the asylum 'narrrative' promoted in the press and by the leftwing lawyers now stands exposed as phony. According to the Washington Times: And while they are often referred to as asylum-seekers, few of the migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the chief sending countries — are likely to end up winning...

Federal officers seized more than $2.7 million worth of drugs and arrested nearly 40 people over the last five days at border crossings in San Diego County and Calexico, officials said. The incidents happened between midnight Friday and midnight Tuesday at six ports of entry in the region. Customs and Border Protection officers “thwarted numerous smuggling attempts” involving a variety of drugs including heroin, cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine. In some cases, the drugs were strapped to people’s bodies. In other attempts, they were hidden in various parts of vehicles like the gas tank, trunk or seats. All told, authorities seized...

Border Patrol agents gave chase to the Chevrolet Silverado pickup, which had two people in the cab and nine in the bed, about 4:25 p.m., CHP spokesman Officer Travis Garrow said. The truck crashed while fleeing at an “extremely high rate of speed” on the two-lane interstate east of Crestwood Road near the Golden Acorn Casino. “It was spike-stripped by the Border Patrol, continued westbound, went up a dirt and rock embankment and rolled, ejecting either nine or 10 people out of the vehicle,” Garrow said. A male driver and a female passenger were believed to be the only occupants...

A handful of Central American migrants camped out at the U.S.-Mexican border waiting to plead their case for asylum in the US launched a hunger strike to protest the Mexican police blocking their way....[snip]. Mexican immigration authorities began transporting some of [them] via buses to a new shelter. Under .... immigration policies introduced by the administration of President Donald Trump, U.S. border officials say they may have to stay put in Mexico for months before they can petition authorities....[snip] On Thursday, ...[sob] Mexican police stopped more than a dozen from the caravan approaching the El Chaparral border crossing. “What the...

Thousands of Hondurans have made the treacherous trip through Mexico to the U.S. border, saying they are fleeing gang violence, but...experts say Mexican crime data may undermine their case for asylum -- they passed through several Mexican states with lower murder rates than some U.S. cities. Mexico as has a murder rate of 19.3 per 100,000 people, ... The states they passed through... have an average murder rate of 19.5 per 100,000 people.. The most dangerous major American city, St. Louis, has a murder rate of 66.1 per 100,000 – coming out worse than Honduras, [at 42.8 in 2017] “If...

After months of an arduous journey across Mexico, some migrants are giving up on seeking asylum in the U.S., while several of them are falling ill in filthy, overcrowded shelters. ... in Tijuana, a sports complex... doesn't have the capacity to host 6,000 ... who now live under poor sanitary conditions... sleep on the floor using cardboard boxes....setting up tents ... makeshift shelters, but the overcrowding has led to respiratory illnesses, lice and chicken pox... ... the migrants’ hopes of seeking refuge on U.S. soil is fading, and at least 350 asked authorities to help them return [home.] [A Guatemalan...

US border patrol detained 42 people for illegal entry. Unclear if they will be deported No criminal charges will be filed against the 42 migrants arrested in a clash that ended with US authorities firing teargas into Mexico. Rodney Scott, chief of the border patrol’s San Diego sector, has said those arrested for illegal entry included 27 men, with the rest being women and children. The incident occurred at the border in Tijuana,... As frustrations began to mount over the long wait, migrants marched to the border Sunday to appeal for the US to speed things up. It turned unruly...

The $5 billion addition will buy “215 miles of Border Patrol’s highest priority border wall miles,” said a statement by agency spokeswoman Katie Waldman.

The trio had gone together to a party in Ensenada on Friday and were supposed to return that same night.4 A Tijuana police detective told Gomez’s family that the three teens were tortured before they were shot Sunday, Garcia said. There was no initial indication of what might have led to the brutal killings. According to Tijuana media reports, gunfire erupted around 5 a.m. Sunday at the Lomas Verdes housing complex in south-central Tijuana. When police arrived, they found three young men dressed only in their underwear lying dead in front of an apartment door. An initial investigation suggested a...

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors will lay off up to 14,000 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles. The reduction includes 8,100 white-collar workers, some of whom will take buyouts and others who will be laid off. Some U.S. factory workers could transfer to truck or SUV factories that are increasing production.

TORONTO, Nov 25 (Reuters) - General Motors Co is planning to close all operations at a plant near Toronto and an announcement is expected on Monday, a local TV news channel reported on Sunday Citing multiple sources, CTV News reported that the plant closure in Oshawa in the province of Ontario was expected to affect “thousands” of high-paying jobs. GM builds sedans on one assembly line and pickup trucks on another. The plant closure is part of global restructuring, the report added. A Canada-based GM spokesman declined comment. GM employs about 2,500 union staff and roughly 300 salaried employees in...