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'Disastrous consequences': Anti-abortion laws could make undocumented women more vulnerable

'Disastrous consequences': Anti-abortion laws could make undocumented women more vulnerable

Many women without legal immigration status are in a more vulnerable position because of anti-abortion laws.

Some states targeting abortion access are home to large populations of undocumented people, including Florida, Texas, Georgia and Arizona.

"Criminalizing abortion care will have disastrous consequences for people who are undocumented," said one activist.

Many undocumented women already had limited access to abortion care before the Supreme Court ruling last month striking down nationwide rights to a ... Read more

Border Patrol Finds 71 Illegal Immigrants Living in a Traile

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) found 71 illegal immigrants on Thursday in Garceno, a border town between Laredo and McAllen, according to a

social media post

by Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings.

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Foreign fugitive and son of reputed crime boss removed by ER

SALT LAKE CITY — Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Salt Lake City Field Office removed Alexandru Claudiu Pascu, 24, a citizen of Romania, from the United States.

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RGV Border Patrol Agents Bust up Stash Houses and Rescue Ali

EDINBURG, Texas – On Thursday, U.S. Border Patrol agents encounter 99 illegal aliens in stash houses and rescue another 62 during several incidents.

Early Thursday morning, Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) agents, working with the Starr ... Read more

Smugglers Use ATV to Transport Migrants

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents arrested 11 migrants after encountering an abandoned All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV), and engaging in a vehicle pursuit over the weekend.

Just before midnight on October 1, a Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station camera operator observed an ATV transporting multiple subjects north from the Rio Grande near Escobares. Responding agents encountered the ATV abandoned after it struck a ranch gate. Agents searched the surrounding brush and apprehended five subjects illegal ... Read more

Who is the Texas school shooter? What we know

Salvador Ramos, the alleged gunman accused of shooting his grandmother and then targeting dozens of victims – ultimately killing 19 children and two adults – at a Texas elementary school was known to be a loner who had quit his job just weeks bef ... Read more

Los Ebanos International Ferry – Texas Monthly

The area separating Los Ebanos, Texas, and Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, is less than the length of a football field, but that distance can feel like a light-year. These two towns share an international border on the Rio Grande, and every day a hundred or ... Read more

Rio Grande hand ferry evokes lost age on U.S. border

LOS EBANOS, Texas (Reuters) - A trip across the Rio Grande on a hand-operated ferry is a brief one. It covers about 70 yards but it takes you back 70 years to a different era on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Five men pull the last hand-hauled ... Read more