Results from Tag: 'border crisis'

Migrants wait in the cold as they look for a shelter outside a Migrant Assistance Center at St. Brigid Elementary School on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in New York.

‘We’ve Got a Big Mess Here’

EDITORIAL: While U.S. politicians of all stripes maneuver to score points for their side on the humanitarian disaster that is immigration, the Catholic Church’s perspective stands out and is more sensible than many people realize.

This aerial picture taken on Sept. 14 shows the U.S.-Mexico border fence with camp shelters left by migrants in San Ysidro, California.

Biden Administration to Build Miles of New Border Wall in Texas

In addition to the new wall in Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley sector, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that it would also be replacing fencing in portions of the border in California and Arizona as well as installing additional detection technology, lighting and access roads.

A smuggler paddles ashore a group of migrants entering the U.S. on the Rio Grande on March 30, 2021 in Roma, Texas. The group made up of individuals from Central America turned themselves into the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing as they seek asylum in the United States.

No Easy Solutions

EDITORIAL: Since President Biden took office, there has been a flood of unaccompanied minor children to the nation’s southern border, seeking entry to the U.S.