U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the border and signed executive orders signaling a serious crackdown on immigration.
The White House and the State Department are denying news reports that Mexico is refusing migrant deportation flights, saying there was a miscommunication. On Saturday night, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said via X: “Thanks to President Trump: Yesterday,
The deportation flight was blocked from leaving the US after two Air Force C-17 flights, each carrying about 80 deportees to Guatemala, successfully took off Thursday night.
The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico's assistance.
Aboard Air Force One, while en route to view wildfire devastation in California, President Trump signed a series of executive actions aimed at preventing the use of federal taxpayer dollars
The White House on Wednesday summarized U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping crackdown this week at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House announced Friday that it had deployed Marines to the U.S. southern border. "The US Marine Corps Is On The Border Assisting CBP With The Mission To Secure America," the White House wrote on the social media platform, X. The post included a video of planes flying down to the U.S.-Mexico border with soldiers coming out of them.
Troops have assisted at the border before and will be limited to support roles unless the administration invokes the Insurrection Act.
The White House Spanish language page was shut down just hours after President Trump assumed the Oval Office for the second time. The website, whitehouse.gov/es/, was functioning during the
U.S. officials say the Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days.
President Trump Friday signed an executive order reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which forbids using taxpayer money for coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization by NGOs.