Nick Miroff
Washington Post
South Burlington, VT, United States
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Mexican reporter whom U.S. tried to deport ruled eligible for asylum
Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, who sought asylum in the United States in 2008 but was twice denied by a judge, has been declared eligible for asylum. → Read More
Texas must move floating border barriers in Rio Grande, U.S. judge says
Texas placed the spiked barriers in the river without federal permission as part of Operation Lone Star, a $4 billion effort to block illegal border crossings. → Read More
New surge of migrants strains U.S. capacity ahead of May 11 deadline
Border Patrol facilities are stretched to capacity along the U.S.-Mexico border as the Biden administration plans to lift pandemic-era restrictions May 11 → Read More
U.S. to open immigrant processing centers in Latin America
Border Patrol facilities are stretched to capacity by a surge of migrants. It's a bad sign for President Biden's plan to lift pandemic-era restrictions May 11. → Read More
Biden administration to announce plans for anticipated border surge
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the Biden administration will announce plans next week for the border after Title 42 ends in May. → Read More
U.S. wiretaps tracked Gulf Cartel after Americans abducted, leak shows
A leaked intel document obtained by the Post describes the Mexican Gulf Cartel's response to the kidnapping and killing of four Americans in Matamoros. → Read More
Fentanyl is ‘single greatest challenge’ U.S. faces, DHS secretary says
Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate panel that the Biden administration was working with Mexico to “bring the fight to the cartels.” → Read More
DEA seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in the U.S. in 2022
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said the seizures recorded by the agency this year contained enough fentanyl “to kill everyone in the United States.” → Read More
CBP head Chris Magnus has resigned, following standoff with DHS secretary
His resignation ends an awkward dispute between the country’s top border official and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. → Read More
GAO examines U.S. border practices in facing record numbers of migrants
A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan congressional agency that is the government’s primary oversight body, examined some of the ad hoc practices deployed by the Biden administration to contend with record numbers of border-crossers in U.S. custody. → Read More
Two migrants shot, one fatally, along Texas highway
Two men in a pickup truck opened fire on a group that stopped for drinking water, Texas authorities said Thursday. → Read More
U.S. arrests along Mexico border surpass 2 million in a year for the first time
The number of migrants taken into custody along the southern border during the 2022 fiscal year has surpassed 2 million, Homeland Security officials said Monday. → Read More
8 migrants dead after dozens swept downriver along Rio Grande in Texas
The bodies of eight people were recovered from the Rio Grande after dozens of migrants were swept downriver near Eagle Pass, Texas, in what appeared to be the deadliest mass-drowning incident along the border in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday. → Read More
Border Patrol agents did not strike Del Rio migrants, report finds
The Border Patrol agents on horseback who confronted Haitian families last September along the riverbanks in Del Rio, Tex., did not strike migrants with their reins but acted inappropriately and lacked proper guidance from supervisors, according to a long-anticipated internal report released Friday. Widely-circulated images of the incident along the Rio Grande showed U.S. agents swinging reins… → Read More
Across southern Arizona, a full range of border woes for Biden
In Arizona, the polyglot queue in Yuma of what authorities call “give ups,” migrants who willingly seek out U.S. authorities after crossing the Mexican border, served as sharp contrast to the wild chases happening about 300 miles southeast in Nogales. → Read More
Secret Service chief James Murray leaving agency
U.S. Secret Service director James M. Murray has accepted a top security job with the California-based social media company Snapchat, according to a Department of Homeland Security official with knowledge of his decision. → Read More
U.S. border arrests rose to record high in May, data shows
Immigration arrests along the U.S. southern border rose in May to the highest levels ever recorded, as growing numbers of migrants arrived from outside the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show. → Read More
Biden prepares asylum overhaul at border, but court challenges loom
The Biden administration next week will begin its overhauled process for screening migrants seeking humanitarian protection along the U.S. border. → Read More
How covid-era immigration restrictions work at the border
The Biden administration’s plan to lift covid-era border restrictions Monday has triggered a debate where partisans tend to depict the policy known as Title 42 in sweeping terms. → Read More
Biden official: Title 42 end will lead to fewer border crossings
A senior Department of Homeland Security official told a Senate panel Thursday that the record numbers of migrants crossing the southern border would decrease if the Biden Administration is allowed to go forward with its plan to lift the Title 42 public health restrictions on May 23. → Read More