Tag: border

• Saturday, June 1st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Markets and US businesses lobbies react negatively to Trump's tariffs on Mexican imports

  

  Mexico's president has insisted his government will not be provoked after President Donald Trump announced escalating tariffs on all goods unless Mexico curbed illegal migration. Andrés Manuel López Obrador described Mr Trump's slogan “America First” as a fallacy and said universal justice was more important than borders.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  US-Mexico border stricter controls hitting the highly integrated US auto industry

  

  Long delays at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing for goods destined for American plants and consumers are hitting the U.S. auto industry, and the gridlock reduced by half the number of northbound trucks that crossed the entry point last week.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Investigation into the death of Guatemalan child in the custody of US Border Patrol

  

  An investigation has been launched after a seven-year-old girl died while in the custody of the US Border Patrol. The Guatemalan child, named as Jakelin Caal Maquin, was detained last week after crossing the US-Mexico border with her father, officials say.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Operation to rescue Brexit deal: PM May flies to Holland, Germany and Brussels

  

  Theresa May will meet European leaders and EU officials later for talks aimed at rescuing her Brexit deal. She will hold talks with Dutch PM Mark Rutte and Germany's Angela Merkel after postponing MPs' final vote on the deal. The UK PM has said she needs “further assurances” about the Northern Ireland border plan to get Commons backing.

• Thursday, August 30th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  Emergency in Brazil: 700/800 Venezuelans cross the border daily, claims Temer

  

  The Brazilian government may restrict entrance of Venezuelans at the border in the remote northwestern state of Roraima, President Michel Temer said on Wednesday, after a flood of migrants has strained local services and sparked violence with residents.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 11:13 UTC

  Cúcuta, the solution to many Venezuelans

  

  When it comes to getting medical treatments, temporary work, migration for a short time, buying food or making more money, Cúcuta has been the better option, if not the perfect one, it is the most practical, for many Venezuelans.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  Obama orders National Guard troops deployed along US/Mexico border

  

  United States National Guard troops will begin deploying along the US-Mexico border from 1 August, officials say. The 1,200 troops, ordered to the border by President Barack Obama, form part of efforts to tackle illegal immigration and drug-trafficking.They will be in the four border states with Arizona getting the largest share.