Tag: Mexican border

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Asylum seeking migrants occupy bridge linking Matamoros with the US

  

  Migrants seeking asylum in the United States who are camped in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading U.S. authorities to close the crossing, witnesses and authorities said.

• Saturday, March 16th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Mexican border wall: Trump “proudly” signs veto to secure emergency funds

  

  Donald Trump signed the first veto of his presidency on Friday, overriding congressional opposition to secure emergency funds to build more walls on the US-Mexico border. Trump declared in the Oval Office that he was “proud” to sign the veto.

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Trump ready to declare a national emergency to fund border wall: “lawless act”, warn Democrats

  

  US President Donald Trump is to declare a national emergency to fund his planned border wall with Mexico, the White House has said. He will sign a border security bill to avert a government shutdown - but also act to bypass Congress and use military funds for the wall, a statement said.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil's 2018/19 soy crop estimated at 122m tons and Argentina's, 56.5m tons

  

  Estimates of corn and soybean production in Brazil and Argentina remain unchanged from private analytics IEG vantage last monthly report. The firm projected Brazil’s 2018/19 soybean crop at 122 million tons and Argentina’s crop at 56.5 million tons.