As Mexico has stepped up efforts to stem migration to the U.S. border under pressure from the American government, the agency has struggled with overcrowding in its facilities.

Source: https://gazette.com/ap/international/39-dead-fire-mexico/article_04a63359-16f1-5a3c-a4c2-89f80c057a9e.html

Bannon, 69, has pleaded not guilty to duping donors who gave money to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/bannons-lawyers-ask-to-quit-wall-case-citing-differences/article_ee8dcbc4-6d69-518c-8c5f-b897993013e0.html

Communities south of Ainsworth Hot Springs in the Central Kootenay and Kimberley/Cranbrook and Sparwood towards the U.S. border are most likely to see the strong thunderstorms with large hail.

Source: https://www.e-know.ca/regions/east-kootenay/severe-thunderstorm-watch-for-southern-east-kootenay/

Federal authorities have added 25 border patrol agents at a section of the northeastern U.S. border with Quebec in response to a spike in illegal crossings.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/agents-added-to-us-northern-border-amid-crossing-spike/article_bf6289f9-254e-5cd1-9de8-657c88de8c01.html

FILE PHOTO: Migrants wait to be transported by the U.S. border patrol after crossing the border wall into the U.S. from Mexico, as the number of migrants surges in the border town of Lukeville, Arizona, U.S. December 14, 2023.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/arizona-governor-a-democrat-orders-national-guard-to-the-border/article_2f4b3d05-6cc3-568f-850a-ddcbe7902d32.html

FILE – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., meets with reporters as White House and Senate negotiators struggle behind the scenes to reach a U.S. border security deal at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023.

Source: https://www.courant.com/2023/12/22/a-deal-on-us-border-policy-is-closer-than-it-seems-heres-how-it-is-shaping-up-and-whats-at-stake/

Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Biden a supplemental package that would divvy up money to Ukraine, Israel and the U.S. border.

Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/21/john-kirby-joe-biden-ukraine-israel-foreign-policy/

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) the End Child Trafficking Act, which would require U.S. border officials to conduct an on-the-spot DNA test of each child who is apprehended at the border to ensure they are related to the adult accompanying them.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/wex/democrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed/article_012d03a7-071f-5fb9-919b-2b16c9bf13bb.html

The proposal, suggested in an Aug. 9 letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration, came as New York struggles to handle the estimated 100,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since last year after crossing the southern U.S. border.

Source: https://thegrio.com/2023/08/19/nyc-migrant-proposes-housing-migrants-former-jail/

While asking the government to take efforts to secure the border, the resolution asked for elected officials to provide “adequate resources” for U.S. border patrol “and those working in the immigration system.”

Source: https://mbcpathway.com/2023/06/22/sbc-passes-resolutions-on-the-great-commission-work-of-women-ethics-of-ai-office-of-pastor/

William Soler said the most painful moment for him to recall is when the U.S. border patrol caught the family crossing in between the border walls of Tijuana and San Diego in early September of 2022.

Source: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/08/02/top-stories/in-focus-refugee-family-arrives-in-evanston-a-sanctuary-city-in-need-of-a-welcoming-system/