Rio Grande Valley Sector – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com The Official Blog of FAIR Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:12:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 https://www.immigrationreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-IR-Favicon-100x100.png Rio Grande Valley Sector – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com 32 32 Border Crisis Hits a New High According to Preliminary Data https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/06/border-apprehensions-up-again-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/06/border-apprehensions-up-again-immigrationreform-com/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:12:41 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=24871 Border encounters (previously known as apprehensions) continue to spike, according to preliminary data released in court documents by David Shahoulian, Assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In July, border authorities encountered more than 210,000 migrants, the highest monthly total in more than 20 years. For comparison, more [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/06/border-apprehensions-up-again-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 1 More than 7,000 COVID-Positive Migrants Released in One Border City Since February https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/06/covid-positive-migrants-into-us-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/06/covid-positive-migrants-into-us-immigrationreform-com/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2021 23:57:37 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=24869 Nearly 190,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border in June, a record high which brings the total for the fiscal year to 1,119,204. With new variants of the COVID-19 virus becoming a large concern across the country, hundreds of thousands of migrants are being welcomed into the interior of the country with little to [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/06/covid-positive-migrants-into-us-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 2 Border Arrests on Record-Setting Pace in Rio Grande Valley https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/03/04/border-arrests-on-record-setting-pace-in-rio-grande-valley/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/03/04/border-arrests-on-record-setting-pace-in-rio-grande-valley/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:25:59 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=21157 Apprehensions of illegal border crossers are on pace to top 240,000 in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) this year. On just one day, Feb. 27, Border Patrol agents arrested more than 1,300 people — a five-year record. “A majority of the arrests are family units and unaccompanied children from Central and South America, which greatly impact [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/03/04/border-arrests-on-record-setting-pace-in-rio-grande-valley/feed/ 8 What the Sheriffs Learned on the Border https://www.immigrationreform.com/2014/07/17/what-the-sheriffs-learned-on-the-border/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2014/07/17/what-the-sheriffs-learned-on-the-border/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:32:26 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=7277 Editor’s Note: This week, Susan Tully, the National Field Director for FAIR, is participating in a fact-finding trip on the U.S.-Mexican border with seven sheriffs from Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, North Carolina and Oregon. She sent the updates below to describe their first day in McAllen, Texas. Wednesday morning: We have been in a round table [...]

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