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Aug 31 2022
News
El Paso forced to bus immigrants out of town amid mass migration
The City of El Paso, Texas is getting flooded with 900 immigrants a day, according to officials, who said they’ve been forced to bus many of them out of town over an inability to handle the mass migration.
The crisis in El Paso came to a boiling point Tuesday night when city leaders were told by federal immigration officials that 500 asylum-seeking immigrants from Venezuela made up of
New York Post (News)Feb 18 2020
News
US sanctions Russian energy giant doing business with Nicolas Maduro
The Trump administration announced new sanctions against Russia's biggest oil producer and an executive at the company over its operations in Venezuela, an escalation of Trump's promise in his State of the Union address to "smash" the rule of Nicolas Maduro.
The Russian energy giant Rosneft's trading arm has handled over half the oil coming out of Venezuela and has actively helped the
Washington ExaminerJul 11 2022
News
Mexico, US presidents to meet amid newly tense relationship
The U.S.-Mexico relationship — a straightforward tradeoff during the Trump administration, with Mexico tamping down on migration and the U.S. not pressing on other issues — has become a wide range of disagreements over trade, foreign policy, energy and climate change.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is to visit Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden, a month after
Associated Press Fact CheckAug 30 2022
Analysis
A 'radical shift' at the border is making things tougher for Biden
There's a major detail missing from many conversations about the rising number of migrants coming to the US-Mexico border.
Decades ago, the vast majority of migrants attempting to cross the border between ports of entry were Mexican. A few years ago, most came from the Central American countries known as the Northern Triangle: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
But now,
CNN (Online News)Sep 14 2022
News
Migrant surge overwhelms Border Patrol and shelters in El Paso
A new surge of migrants, primarily from Venezuela, is overwhelming the Border Patrol and shelters in El Paso, Texas, where nearly 1,000 have been released near bus stations over the past week in hope that they will find their own way to their next destinations in the U.S.
On average, the El Paso Sector of the U.S. border has had about 1,300 migrants cross per day, up from May’s high of
NBC News (Online)May 05 2022
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Migrants Bused To DC Don’t Stay There. Here’s Where They’re Going
Washington, D.C. — Roughly 40 migrants arrived in Washington Wednesday morning on buses chartered from Texas as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to bring migrants to the nation’s capital, and each of them told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they had no plans to stay.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pledged to bus migrants to Washington on April 6 after the Centers for Disease Control and
The Daily CallerMay 28 2018
News
Why you’ll pay more for gas this Memorial Day weekend
OPEC and Venezuela are taking a bite out of global oil supply.
VoxOct 24 2020
News
Stricken Venezuelan oil tanker raises fears of Caribbean ecological disaster
Concerns are growing that an oil tanker carrying millions of gallons of oil could spill its load into the sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, causing an ecological catastrophe.
The Venezuelan-flagged Nabarima has lain in the Gulf of Paria since last January when U.S. sanctions on Venezuela made it illegal for companies that operate in the U.S. to trade with the country's
NBC News (Online)Aug 10 2022
Opinion
How to Take Down a Tyrant
Cynics have been quick to sound off over the supposed inefficacy of multinational business retreats and global government sanctions in changing the behavior of brutal autocrats such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, pointing to ineffective examples such as Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and North Korea. French politician Marine Le Pen recently called for an end to “useless” sanctions on
Foreign PolicyOct 18 2019
News
‘Absurd, Immoral and Offensive’: UN Member-States Hand Maduro Regime Seat on Human Rights Council
Despite the public appeals of human rights advocates and behind-the-scenes lobbying, U.N. member-states on Thursday elected Venezuela onto the world’s body’s Human Rights Council, handing the socialist Maduro regime more votes than Costa Rica, a stable liberal democracy.
Until the small Central American country declared its candidacy just weeks ago, Venezuela had been virtually assured