Top House and Senate Republicans on Monday savaged a $118.3 billion bipartisan compromise bill to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and speed critical security aid to Ukraine, threatening to kill the deal’s chances of clearing a deeply divided Congress. Senate Republicans and Democrats released the agreement on Sunday after…
House Republicans threatened on Wednesday to starve the entire federal government of funding if President Biden and Democrats fail to institute a crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border to choke off the flow of migrants streaming into the country. The warnings came as Speaker Mike Johnson led a visit by more than 60 House Republicans to…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and other top American officials met with Mexico’s president on Wednesday for talks on how to slow the surge in illegal migration at the southern U.S. border. President Biden dispatched the officials to Mexico City at a pivotal moment, as border crossings have hit record numbers and there is…
Senate Democrats announced on Thursday that they would put off their upcoming holiday break and stay in Washington next week to press for passage of a bill pairing military assistance for Ukraine with a crackdown on migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, as lawmakers on both sides of the talks reported progress toward a…
As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine stood at a lectern in the Capitol on Tuesday pleading with senators to quickly approve more aid for his country’s war against Russian invaders, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, delivered a blunt message. “Here’s the problem,” Mr. Graham, a defense hawk who has been a champion of…
Republicans in Congress have tied the fate of aid to Ukraine to their demands for stricter border policies to restrict migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, vastly complicating its chances of getting approved. What began earlier this year as a push by right-wing lawmakers deeply opposed to funding the war in Ukraine to tie…
Like many people in the tiny town of Why, Ariz., Stephanie Fierro’s life revolves around the nearby border crossing. She works at a roadside café serving enchiladas to American tourists passing through on their way to beach resorts in Mexico. Her husband, a Mexican citizen, lives on the other side. That link was severed last…
Jairo Lerma and several of his relatives placed a wooden cross in the dry grass along a Texas highway where his parents, on their way from Georgia to Mexico, died suddenly in a fiery crash with an oncoming car that was carrying migrants and fleeing a sheriff’s deputy. Shortly before the crash on Nov. 8,…
The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China. Despite the distances involved and the difficulties of the journey, more than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the…
A question for Nikki Haley “If you do get ‘catch and deport,’ what would you do with all of the ones who are here now?” The subtext The phrase “catch and deport” refers to Ms. Haley’s campaign trail riff on the term “catch and release,” which generally refers to the longtime practice of allowing people…