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President Trump’s administration is considering adding the country of Guatemala to its highly-effective travel ban list that has essentially halted all legal immigration from eight foreign countries with serious terrorist and crime problems.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to commit a gaffe on Friday, telling immigration activists, “We need family separation.”

The number of Central Americans claiming asylum in the European Union has massively increased as President Donald Trump has moved to tighten America’s southern border, with Venezuelans now the second-largest demographic after Syrians.

Democrats blame President Donald Trump for migrants suffering on the border and want to allow 100,000 refugees a year from Central America.

Bernie Sanders visited the Homestead protest and said the U.S. should address the “root cause” of migration, which he said was violence in Central America.

Two GOP Senators ripped Democrat members — and the GOP chairman of their committee — during a hearing Wednesday, just after three Democrat senators simultaneously lamented the crush of migrants while prodding border officials to allow more migrants through the border.

Two opinion polls in Mexico show a strong shift against allowing Central American illegal migration up to the U.S. border. 

President Donald Trump has announced a comprehensive immigration reform deal with the Mexico government, but the details have not been released. 

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is buying 2.2 million diapers to help deliver many economic migrants and their children into Americans’ worksites, schools, and neighborhoods, according to an online contract request.

Poor people have a right to migrate to the United States, and migrants should not be stopped by force, according to a letter from Mexico’s president to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Mexico’s government is sending its foreign minister to D.C. for meetings on Friday after President Donald Trump promised to impose trade tariffs until Mexico helps end the huge migration from Central America

Guatemala’s towns are emptying out as a growing number of migrants head north to accept the Democratic Party’s offer of open-border loopholes and low-wage jobs, say a growing number of local reports.

President Donald Trump will soon give a speech on his draft immigration reform plan, according to a Washington Post report. 

Guatemala’s Secretary of Strategic Intelligence Mario Duarte says migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are coming to the country for economic reasons and have been “weaponized” as a “picketing mob” for international open borders organizations.

“You know, we can solve the problem at the border and it starts not at the border, we can do it by making the countries and helping the countries where they’re fleeing from better so that they don’t want to leave it in the first place,” Biden said.

Border agencies should provide even more help to Central American migrants, top Democrats said in response to the White House’s emergency funding request to manage the migration inflow. 

The annual admittance of more than 1.2 million legal immigrants is expected to drive the United States’ foreign-born population to unprecedented levels by 2060, Census Bureau data finds.

President Donald Trump’s border agencies pushed down the number of foreign visitors who overstayed their 2018 visas by six months. 

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked a White House proposal to spotlight Central American migration by busing the migrants into Democrats’ “sanctuary city” neighborhoods.

The Central American migration is choking the checkpoints used by trucks and traders to cross between the United States and Mexico, according to the Washington Post. 

The United States is encountering a caravan of mostly Central American migrants to the country every week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials note. 

White House officials are scrambling to protect businesses from cross-border trade disruptions as President Donald Trump pressures Mexico and Congress to shut down Central America’s migration into the United States. 

Several key Republicans have declared their opposition to President Donald Trump’s order to freeze direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, including the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX). These GOP critics offered the same argument as the Democrats, namely that cutting off funds to anti-poverty and law enforcement programs in the “Northern Triangle” countries will make the migrant crisis even worse.

Former Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) over the weekend called on mayors of major U.S. cities to open “welcoming centers” for caravan migrants.

President Donald Trump slammed leaders in Mexico and Central America on Thursday morning for allowing the migrant wave to reach U.S. borders, just a few hours after DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a “historic” deal with Central American countries. 

There are more than 1.7 million illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico who have deportation orders or pending deportation orders that have yet to be deported from the United States. 

The thousands of migrants amassed at the U.S. southern border with Mexico include many who are sick with highly contagious diseases.

Granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelan nationals, as Democrats and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) support, will encourage more mass migration to the United States, Colorado State University professor Philip Cafaro says. 

A New York Times’ article on the migrant caravans shows President Donald Trump’s border security reforms are successfully curbing the northward flow of migrants.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that he is looking to scale down the state’s National Guard presence at the U.S.-Mexico border, pulling nearly 400 troops from the border assisting President Donald Trump’s border enforcement efforts and assigning them to other duties.

The process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S., is continuing to drive mass legal immigration levels to the country. 

Pro-American immigration reformers say President Trump’s plan to offer a work permit amnesty to about a million illegal aliens and foreign nationals could encourage more caravans of Central Americans to come to the United States at the U.S-Mexico border.

Legal and illegal migrants sent $53.4 billion in remittances back to Mexico and Central America in 2018, more than double the cost of building a border barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that it is pledging more than $10 billion to help strengthen the economies of Central America and Southern Mexico to stem the flow of thousands of migrant surging into the country.

Since 2014, American taxpayers have been billed nearly $30 million to fund school supplies, toys, clothing, and coloring books for migrants returning to Central America after being deported from the United States.

Hundreds of migrants from Central America gathered near the U.S. border in Tijuana are planning to return home. They blame one of the caravan organizers, Pueblos Sin Fronteras, for allegedly misleading them into joining the trek with false promises of easy asylum in the United States. The group denies the accusations.