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Biden sends troops to the US-Mexico border ahead of the end of Section 42

WASHINGTON – US officials authorized the deployment of 1,500 active duty soldiers to the US-Mexico border for 90 days to assist US Customs and Border Protection in the fight against international drug trafficking. Some 2,500 active-duty National Guard troops have already been deployed to all nine sections of the southwestern border, doing detection and monitoring

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Hundreds of migrants try to storm the US-Mexico border

Hundreds of people tried to storm the US-Mexico border on Sunday following rumors that migrants would be allowed to cross into the United States. Around noon, a large crowd, mostly Venezuelans, began to gather at the entrance to the bridge connecting Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez with El Paso, Texas, in the southern United States. Frustrated by

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Arizona dismantles shipping container wall at US-Mexico border

A wall of shipping containers in Arizona on the state’s nearly 370-kilometer border with Mexico is being dismantled. The makeshift barrier was built just a few months ago by former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey at a cost to the taxpayer of $100 million. In December, Washington sued Ducey and agreed to tear down the wall,

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