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Migrant expulsions at southern border shoot up as pandemic drags on
Salvador Rivera, Border Report
The number of people expelled from the United States in 2020 ended with an upswing, according to statistics from the National Immigration Institute in Mexico. Through November, there had been 29,753 Mexican nationals sent back to Mexico through the state of Baja California, directly south from California, most arriving in the city of Tijuana. Overall, the numbers show expulsions are up by 400 percent since June.
First new DACA applications approved in final weeks of 2020
Larry Neumeister and Nomann Merchant, AP
Over 170 new applicants have become the first individuals in several years to win approval to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants brought to the U.S. as young people, the U.S. government revealed in a court filing Monday. A report submitted by the Department of Homeland Security to Brooklyn federal court showed 171 new applications were approved from Nov. 14 through the end of 2020 while 121 applications were denied and another 369 were rejected. In all, 2,713 initial applications were submitted.
Biden can redirect new border wall funding lawmakers say they OK’d to avert shutdown
Sandra Sanchez, Border Report
Although President-elect Joe Biden has promised not to build more border wall along the Southwest border, Congress recently funded an additional $1.375 billion for border wall construction. But a South Texas congressman who sits on the House Appropriations Committee told Border Report on Monday that the Biden administration doesn’t have to use the money for wall construction this year and can funnel it for other border security methods.
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