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Republican lawmakers pass an immigration package that would restart stalled construction of Donald Trump's southern border wall as the United States braces for a sudden increase in migrant crossings from Mexico. The Secure the Border Act of 2023, which advanced from the Republican-led House of Representatives on a roughly party-line 219-213 vote, would reintroduce several signature Trump-era measures, from completing the wall to bolstering asylum restrictions. IMAGES
Villahermosa (Mexico), Mar 23 (EFE), (CAMERA: Manuel Lopez) .- Migrants seeking to reach the United States are crossing the southern border of Mexico from new little-used points such as the Grijalva River, on the border of the state of Tabasco with Guatemala, the head of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño, said on Tuesday.
Former top Trump strategist Steve Bannon exits Manhattan Federal Court after he was arrested and charged along with three others for defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a Mexico border wall fundraising campaign. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump announces that he will declare a national emergency in order to build a barrier on the US-Mexico border without funding from Congress. SOUNDBITE
On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory framework put in place by his predecessor as a direct response to the financial crisis. In a Friday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called the Dodd-Frank Act a "disastrous policy." The new administration is aiming for a broad range of financial reforms, ranging from back rules consumer protections.
The MIT Technology Review is questioning Donald Trump’s claim that his proposed border wall will cost $12 billion. According to MIT, the cost could be closer to $40 billion.