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Images of the Rio Grande seen from Anzalduas Park in McAllen, Texas which is on the US border with Mexico. President Trump travels to McAllen on Thursday and will fly down to the southern border that he described in his prime-time television address to the nation, as an open door to murderers and other criminals. IMAGES
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
Ciudad Juárez, Oct 17 (EFE).- Mexican and American activists gathered on Sunday at the border to clean up the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo), contaminated for weeks by sewage spill from a company in El Paso, Texas. More than 500 members of Rotary clubs and volunteers from both sides of the border joined the project "Together let's clean the Rio Bravo", which occurred simultaneously in the Mexican border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Piedras Negras, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros. (Camera: RAÚL MORALES). SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS CLEAN UP RIO GRANDE AT THE MEXICO-US BORDER, IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO.
As if dealing with the drama of the US general election wasn't challenging enough, US citizens who live in Mexico--and want to vote--have it even worse. According to Business Insider, those Americans must endure hours-long waits at the border before they reach the ballot box. On Election Day, thousands of US citizens living in Mexico crowded the international bridges to El Paso, Texas, just to cast their vote. Most waited over two hours. The international bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso was also completely full. Even with COVID-related restrictions in place, the line stretched out for nearly a mile. But voters whose lives straddle the border say it's a small price to participate in an election that will have a profound impact on both countries. All this extreme border vigilance, the paranoia, and the hate speech toward us, Latinos, is exactly why we needed to vote today. Joaquín Almanza US Citizen, Juarez resident
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
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