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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

US-Mexico border

File - Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
April 20, 2024, 6:33 pm
US Senate ends impeachment of Jewish Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas
Vote along party lines puts kibosh on House’s charges that Mayorkas failed to address Mexico border crisis; Jewish groups: Allegations recall antisemitic ‘Great Replacement’ trope
By Ron Kampeas
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security Hearing on Worldwide Threats to the Homeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 15, 2023. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
February 14, 2024, 3:14 pm
US House votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
After motion passes 214-213, Biden pans ‘unconstitutional partisanship’ and ‘petty political games’; Senate Majority Democrat Schumer calls it a ‘sham’
By Agencies
Body bags lie at the scene where a tractor trailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, in San Antonio, June 27, 2022. (Eric Gay/AP)
June 28, 2022, 8:10 am
‘Horrific tragedy’: 46 suspected migrants found dead in San Antonio trailer
Cry for help from truck container leads to grisly discovery; another 16, including 4 children, hospitalized with heat-related illnesses; three suspects detained
By ERIC GAY and Elliot Spagat
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, on September 19, 2021. (Paul Ratje/AFP)
September 21, 2021, 8:06 am
Uproar over images of US mounted border agents rounding up Haitian migrants
Pictures show riders swinging their long reins to threaten migrants and push them back toward Mexico, some say evoking 19th-century scenes of the violence of slavery
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks at the 9th annual Shale Insight Conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, in Pittsburgh, October 23, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)
October 24, 2019, 9:50 am
Trump includes Colorado in US states getting border wall
US president says he was only kidding when he said security barrier will not follow boundary with Mexico
By AP
US President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, September 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, California. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
October 2, 2019, 9:41 am
Trump suggested shooting migrants in legs, alligator-filled border moat – report
NY Times says US president ordered the entire frontier with Mexico be sealed off by the next day, berated aides who pushed back
By ToI Staff
From left, Melody Stout, Hannah Payan, Aaliyah Alba, Sherie Gramlich and Laura Barrios comfort each other during a vigil for victims of the shooting August 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
August 4, 2019, 8:39 am
At least 20 killed in mass shooting at shopping complex in El Paso, Texas
Gunman opens fire in crowded shopping center; police say many of the 26 people hurt have life-threatening injuries; suspect arrested
By CEDAR ATTANASIO, MICHAEL BALSAMO and DIANA HEIDGERD
In this photo from April 5, 2019 US President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, California. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
July 27, 2019, 7:31 am
In victory for Trump, Supreme Court OKs use of Pentagon funds for border wall
Justices lift lower court freeze, allowing $2.5 billion to be spent on new fencing; US president hails ruling as a ‘Big WIN’
By Jessica Gresko
People holds hands as they chant at a rally before the start of a march in opposition to the Trump administration's plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally, July 14, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)
July 15, 2019, 8:03 am
As migrants wait in fear, no sign of large-scale US raids
Operation appears far more modest than the ‘millions’ Trump promised would be detained and expelled
By Thomas URBAIN
US Vice President Mike Pence tours a detention facility on the Texas border, July 12, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
July 13, 2019, 7:55 am
Pence tour of migrant center shows men crowded in cages
‘This is tough stuff,’ US vice president says; denounces comparison of facilities to ‘concentration camps,’ says they are ‘providing care that every American would be proud of’
By AP
Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in San Martin, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The drowned bodies of Ramirez's son, 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter were located Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande, a day after the pair were swept away by the current when the young family tried to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Her daughter-in-law Tania Vanessa Avalos, 21, survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Valladares)
June 27, 2019, 5:22 am
‘They died in each other’s arms,’ migrant’s mother says
Rosa Ramírez takes some solace in seeing the shocking picture of her son and granddaughter drowned in the Rio Grand, knowing that he never let go of the little girl
By MARCOS ALEMÁN and Peter Orsi
The 'Americans and the Holocaust' exhibition is on display at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The exhibit explores the decisions made by the US government, the news media, Hollywood and individuals in response to Nazism (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
June 25, 2019, 4:22 am
US Holocaust Museum rejects Nazi concentration camp analogies
Washington institution reiterates position after report misrepresents stance of historian who had voiced support for Ocasio-Cortez sentiment on border crisis
By JTA
Visitors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on April 28, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 21, 2019, 3:10 am
Yad Vashem tells Democrat to get educated after concentration camp comment
Holocaust museum and memorial tweets at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been criticized for using term to describe detention centers on southern US border
By JTA
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
June 19, 2019, 3:02 am
The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘concentration camp’ debate, explained
Critics say Democrat’s use of term to describe US detention centers belittles Jewish suffering in Holocaust; congresswoman and defenders say it’s ‘not hyperbole’
By JTA
US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York speaks during a gathering of the National Action Network in New York, on April 5, 2019. (Don Emmert/AFP)
June 18, 2019, 9:57 pm
Ocasio-Cortez says US running ‘concentration camps’ on border
Republicans rip first-term congresswoman over remarks, accuse her of demeaning the memory of Jews murdered in the Holocaust
By AFP
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