🚨🇺🇸TRUMP BORDER CRACKDOWN: ENHANCED ENFORCEMENT AT ALL ENTRY POINTS
🔹 Border Patrol budget increased by 40% — hiring 15000 additional agents across southern border 🚔
🔹 Biometric scanning mandatory for all visa entries including tourist visitors from 40 countries starting June 2026 📱
🔹 Deportation flights increased 300% — ICE targeting sanctuary cities with federal funding cuts if non-compliance 🛫
Border security getting the biggest overhaul in decades 😬🔥
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Binding in Word, Broken in Practice: The Algiers Agreement and the Weakening of International Legal Authority (1998–2025). Read more.
https://borkena.com/2025/12/14/binding-in-word-broken-in-practice-the-algiers-agreement-and-the-weakening-of-international-legal-authority-1998-2025/#Eritrea#Ethiopia#border
🇺🇸 Biden DHS exempted thousands of immigrants from terror-related entry restrictions in FY 2024
The Biden administration gave nearly 7,000 exemptions, mostly to refugees, for foreign nationals who otherwise could be ineligible for admission into the U.S. due to terrorism-related entry restrictions - a significantly higher number than in recent years.
The 6,848 number is significantly higher than the 2,085 waivers issued in FY 2023, which in turn was higher than previous years. There were 603 waivers distributed in FY 2022, 191 in FY 2021 and 361 in FY 2020, according to DHS reports.
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🇺🇸Proposal to allow local police to make arrests near border will appear on ballot in Arizona
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 14 that a proposal that would make it a crime for migrants to cross the southern border and empower local police to make arrests near the state’s border with Mexico will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot.
In issuing its ruling, the state’s highest court rejected a challenge from Latino groups who argued the proposal—known as Proposition 314—violates a rule in the state constitution limiting ballot questions to a single subject.
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🚨🇺🇸US MILITARY USES LASER TO SHOOT DOWN DRONE AT MEXICO BORDER
🔹 High-tech "energy weapon" blasts unknown drone over Texas ⚡️
🔹 Democrats fume, calling it "reckless militarization" of border zone 😡
🔹 Pentagon: "We will neutralize any threat entering our airspace" 💥
The border just got a sci-fi upgrade... 🌵👾
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🚧🏛️CONGRESS DEBATES BORDER SECURITY AS DHS SHUTDOWN LOOMS
🔹 Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act advances — would deport non-citizens including green card holders for single DUI ⚖️🚗
🔹 DHS funding fight risks partial federal shutdown affecting ICE and CBP operations amid enforcement criticism 💸⚠️
🔹 Republicans push hundreds of millions more for border security while Democrats demand policy changes 💰🔄
🔹 February DHS memo already ended refugee protections — detention increased for those without green cards after one year 📋⏰
Visa bans on Cuba and Venezuela plus new 50 non-waivable fee already hitting immigrants nationwide 🛂💳
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🇲🇽🇺🇸Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday, as they attempt to make it to the U.S. border.
Some of the members of the group said they hoped to make it to the U.S. border before elections are held in November, because they fear that if Donald Trump wins, he will follow through on a promise to close the border to asylum-seekers.
The group left Sunday from the southern Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo, which is next to a river that marks Mexico’s border with Guatemala.
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Israel Has Reopened the Rafah Border
The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been reopened by Israel for a limited number of people on foot, as fragile diplomatic efforts to stabilise the conflict inch forward.
Israeli forces took control of the Rafah crossing – Gaza’s only crossing not shared with Israel – in May 2024, describing it as necessary to prevent weapons smuggling by Hamas.
The move isolated the territory, cutting off a critical lifeline for Palestinians seeking access to medical care, travel and trade.
Israel has made clear that all movement through the crossing will be subject to joint Israeli-Egyptian security screening and that, for now, only a small number of Gaza’s tens of thousands of wounded and ill Palestinians will be permitted to leave each day.
According to an Egyptian official, speaking anonymously to the Associated Press, only 50 Palestinians will be permitted to cross in each direction on the first day of operations.
Before the war, the Rafah crossing was Gaza’s sole window on to the outside world not controlled by Israel.
Its reopening could ease access to medical care, allow limited travel abroad, and enable visits to family members in Egypt, where tens of thousands of Palestinians already live.
Thousands of civilians have registered with the World Health Organization for medical evacuation. Gaza’s health ministry says at least 20,000 patients are waiting to leave.
According to Médecins Sans Frontières more than one in five of them are children. The sick include more than 11,000 cancer patients.
Israeli airstrikes on hospitals have reduced the Palestinian healthcare system to ruins. In March 2025, Israel destroyed Gaza’s only specialised cancer treatment hospital, the territory’s sole provider of oncology care.
Since then, doctors have been pushed into makeshift clinics, operating with almost no resources, including the tools needed for diagnosis.
According to health officials in Gaza, there are about 4,000 people with official referrals for treatment to third countries who are unable to cross the border.
“I have appealed to humanitarian groups, to the WHO, to the Palestinian Authority – to anyone – so that I can leave, save my life, and reunite with my family,” Tamer al-Burai, 50, who has obstructive sleep apnoea and relies on a CPAP machine to breathe during sleep, told Reuters.
For some, the reopening came too late. Dalia Abu Kashef, 28, died last week while waiting for permission to cross for a liver transplant.
“We found a volunteer – her brother – who was ready to donate part of his liver,” her husband, Muatasem El-Rass, told Reuters. “We were waiting for the crossing to open so we could travel and do the surgery, hoping for a happy ending. But she deteriorated badly and died.”
The WHO says 900 people, including children and cancer patients, have already died while awaiting evacuation.
The limited reopening of the Rafah crossing also offers a rare opportunity for families torn apart by more than two years of war to reunite.
Many families who fled to Cairo early in the war never expected to remain for so long.
The reopening is seen as a key step as the US-brokered ceasefire agreement moves into its second phase.
Its first phase called for the exchange of all hostages held in Gaza for hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel, an increase in badly needed humanitarian aid and a partial pullback of Israeli troops.
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Drone Panic in El Paso: Homeland Theater at 18,000 Feet
The Trump administration just shut down the sky over El Paso like it was 9/11 because of what it now calls “Mexican cartel drones” — then quietly lifted a 10‑day ground stop within hours, offered almost no detail, and declared the “threat neutralized” with a bald‑eagle meme. The FAA’s NOTAM turned the airspace above a metro area of nearly 900,000 into “national defense airspace” up to 18,000 feet, warned that violators could be intercepted and detained, and suggested this could last until Feb. 20. By Wednesday afternoon, the same system said: never mind, all clear.
Drone incursions from Mexico are not new. For years, they’ve been used by smugglers to scout U.S. military and CBP positions along the border and have never triggered a full commercial shutdown of a regional hub. El Paso’s own member of Congress, Veronica Escobar — who sits on the House Armed Services Committee — said flatly she saw “nothing extraordinary” that could justify an immediate or 10‑day closure and learned about the stop from a random federal employee, not from the FAA or the Pentagon. Local officials and airport management were left in the dark, while Washington posted a laser‑and‑eagle graphic.
Democrats on the House Transportation Committee called the whole episode “unacceptable” and “chaotic,” blaming new language the White House jammed into the defense bill that gives the Pentagon wide latitude to declare and police chunks of public airspace. An aviation professor in Britain called a complete no‑fly zone over a civilian airport “very odd” and “very rare” — especially when the stated threat is a few small drones that, until yesterday, were treated as an annoyance, not an air‑defense emergency.
So what actually happened? The administration won’t say when the drones crossed, how many there were, or why this incursion suddenly required freezing all commercial traffic in and out of the “gateway to West Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Mexico.” Instead, it offers a simple story: cartel drones breached, the military acted, the homeland was defended. Mission accomplished, no follow‑up questions. For people who actually live at the border — where drones, smugglers and federal uniforms have coexisted for years — the bigger story is uglier: Washington just test‑drove a new emergency power over civilian airspace, then wrapped the beta test in the language of security and patriotism.
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Uzbek border guards shot dead two Kyrgyz citizens for illegally crossing the border near the Ugam-Chatkal Nature Reserve in Tashkent region on August 15.
https://yep.uz/en/2025/09/uzbek-border-guards-kyrgyz-citizens-shot-dead/
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