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You can almost hear a pin drop at the border. Border crossings have plummeted to levels not seen in decades this month following President’s Trump’s swift crackdown on illegal immigration across the southwest, The Post can reveal. So far in February, about 359 illegal migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border — down more than 90% from February 2024, according to leaked Customs and Border Protection data. That puts the US on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, the number of illegal migrants coming into...

Record numbers of migrant families crossed the US-Mexico border in August, a bombshell new report said this week after The Post revealed that US officials have inexplicably welded open more than 100 gates along the Arizona border. US Border Patrol officials arrested at least 91,000 migrants who crossed the border as part of a family group, according to preliminary data obtained by the Washington Post – beating the previous one-month record of 84,486 migrant families arrested in May 2019, under the Trump administration. Migrant families accounted for the largest demographic group crossing the border in August, surpassing single adults for...

When President Biden took office in January 2021, he promised to transform how the United States treated asylum seekers and restore the humanitarian protections devasted by his predecessor. But by the end of 2021, as apprehensions hit levels not seen in 20 years and over 1.5 million people arrived at the border and crossed for the first time, Border Patrol agents carried out over 1,000,000 expulsions and deportations, including the mass expulsion of Haitian migrants to a country that the United States had just said weeks earlier was too dangerous for deportations. This fact sheet aims to provide historical context...

Defense officials said Wednesday night they planned to open the crossings between Gaza and Israel on Friday if there were no more violations of the cease-fire. At a late-night security assessment in the Defense Ministry on Wednesday, it was decided decided that Israel will keep the Gaza border crossings closed on Thursday, except for special humanitarian cases, in response to Tuesday's Kassam rocket attacks. Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas on a prisoner exchange aimed at securing the release of St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit from Gaza will resume on Thursday, an aide to Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. "Ofer Dekel [the...

Plan accordingly. We have many folks who vacation in Canada, Mexico and the Carribean. Please note, travel to these countries will require passports in the future. More detailed information on the requirements for each country and how to get a passport can be found at the State Dept website: http://travel.state.gov/index.html . New Requirements for Travelers The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires that by January 1, 2008, travelers to and from the Caribbean, Bermuda, Panama, Mexico and Canada have a passport or other secure, accepted document to enter or re-enter the United States. In order to facilitate...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday morning – and was urged on behalf of U.S. President Bush to enable the opening of crossings for Gaza’s Arabs. Rice said that although the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria was a positive and important step, Israel must continue to empower the Palestinian Authority and assist in establishing a Palestinian state. "I expect to continue to work with you and your camp,” Rice told Sharon a the start of the meeting, “and to progress toward the two-state solution in which Israel and the Palestinian state...

Last update - 23:07 01/11/2005 World Bank urges urgent action to open Israel-Gaza crossings By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service A senior World Bank official on Tuesday welcomed a landmark Israeli decision to allow European inspectors to deploy on the Gaza-Egypt border, but said the clogged crossings from Gaza into Israel need to be streamlined urgently to give the crippled Gaza economy a chance to recover. The cabinet on Tuesday approved the deployment of European inspectors at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a breakthrough that would grant the Palestinians some freedom of movement without Israeli controls...

A current commercial campaign for Geico insurance depicts modern-day cavemen who get offended when people assume they're uneducated. A similar theme could hold true when it comes to illegal aliens, according to a new study. Contrary to the stereotype of undocumented migrants as single males with very little education who perform manual labor in agriculture or construction, the Pew Hispanic Center report shows that most of the illegal population lives in families, a quarter has at least some college education and that illegal workers can be found in many sectors of the U.S. economy. "Not all of the unauthorized population...