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The GOP battle to show who’s tougher on immigration

Governors are sending National Guard to the border and presidential hopefuls replay their harshest policies.

Axios

Virginia governor the latest to send troops to US-Mexico border

Governor Glenn Youngkin has deployed 100 National Guard members as human rights advocates decry border ‘militarisation’.

Al Jazeera

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin sends 100 National Guard soldiers to US-Mexican border

Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin is joining the list of Republican governors sending soldiers or other state law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico

The Independent UK

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Effort to fix payroll error for state National Guard troops falls short in Texas Senate

The mistake meant about 7,400 soldiers sent to the Texas-Mexico border under Operation Lone Star were hit with higher-than-expected federal income taxes.

The Texas Tribune

Expiration of Title 42 border rule prompts much rhetoric, less action

The end of a pandemic-era policy that allowed U.S. border authorities to quickly turn back some migrants has prompted a mixed reaction from state and local governments, including new restrictions on immigrant workers, beefed up border enforcement and entreaties for more federal help.

Tribune News Service

Unanimous Texas Senate supports death benefits for National Guard serving along southern border

The legislation was named for Bishop Evans, who drowned last year trying to rescue migrants in the Rio Grande.

The Texas Tribune

GOP border bill expanded to stiffen penalty for human smuggling, create border-crossing crime

State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, tacks two of his stalled bills onto legislation that would create a border police unit and increase state spending in border communities.

The Texas Tribune

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Mississippi sends National Guard to US-Mexico border, GOP governor says

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he is mobilizing a National Guard unit to help with security at the U.S. border with Mexico

The Independent UK

Florida and Idaho governors answer Greg Abbott's call to send officers to Texas border

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he'll send help including 800 state National Guard members and 200 law enforcement officers.

Axios

DeSantis to send Florida National Guard soldiers to Texas for border security

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that he plans to send over 1,100 National Guard soldiers and law enforcement officers to Texas to assist with border security between the United States and Mexico

The Independent UK

With barbed wire and warnings, migrants stopped at US-Mexico border

After hours of waiting on the U.S. side of the border and hoping the Texas National Guard would let them seek U.S. asylum, a group of 15 migrants crossed a shallow green river back to Mexico, their faces drawn in disappointment.

Reuters

Deadly synagogue attack in Tunisia was premeditated, interior minister says

A Tunisian national guardsman behind an attack that killed five people intentionally targeted the ancient synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba in a premeditated act, Tunisia's interior minister said Thursday.

France 24

Title 42 ends with migrants lined up and border cities braced for the unknown

Long lines formed again next to the border wall in El Paso — a scene repeated in other parts of the southern border — as migrants anticipated the end of a policy that has allowed immigration agents to quickly expel them.

The Texas Tribune

Deadly Tunisian synagogue attack was premeditated and targeted temple, interior minister says

Tunisia’s interior minister says a national guardsman behind an attack that killed five people intentionally targeted an ancient synagogue in a premeditated act

The Independent UK

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Four barmy statements fact-checked from Donald Trump's bizarre town hall rant with CNN

Last night former President Donald Trump appeared on stage at a town hall hosted by CNN, which in the past he branded "fake news" and the "liberal media", as he prepares for a potential election run in 2024

The Texas Tribune

Thwarting Democratic efforts, House Republicans revive border policing unit in early-morning vote

The proposed unit would let those who are not law officers arrest or detain suspected undocumented immigrants in border-region counties.

The Independent UK

First 550 US active duty troops arriving at southern border

U.S. defense officials say about 550 U.S. active duty troops have begun arriving along the U.S.-Mexico border, in the first group of new military support ahead of an expected increase migrants

The Independent UK

Mexican high court overturns reforms rushed through Congress

Mexico’s Supreme Court has voted to overturn a pair of electoral law reforms favored by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, because Congress rushed them through to a vote without proper debate, or even time to read them

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The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott focuses on border security in first address since Allen and Brownsville tragedies

Abbott announced the deployment of new “Texas Tactical Border Force” units to El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley on Monday and Tuesday.

Reuters

U.S. seeks to shore up border as migrants gather ahead of end to Title 42

The Biden administration and Texas state government are sending reinforcements to the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible increase in illegal immigration when COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42 are set to end on Thursday.

ABC News

In Ukraine's forests, its soldiers race to prepare for the next push against Russian forces

In the lush greenery of central Ukraine's dense forests, members of the National Guard train for Ukraine's long-awaited campaign that they hope will shift the momentum of its war with Russia.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisia Facing Unprecedented Migration Crisis

Bodies of drowned migrants wash up most days on Tunisian beaches, lie unclaimed in hospital corridors and fill morgues, evidence of a surge in people seeking to cross the Mediterranean that has been accelerated by a government crackdown. Coastguard patrols return to the port of Sfax crammed with migrants stopped…

Reuters

Tunisia facing unprecedented migration crisis as bodies wash ashore

The Independent UK

In Ukraine’s forests, soldiers race to get for next push

The Associated Press joined up with a fighting unit of Ukraine’s National Guard as it prepared for an impending counteroffensive

The Independent UK

US, Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border

U.S. and Mexican officials on Tuesday agreed on new immigration policies meant to deter illegal border crossings while also opening up other pathways ahead of an expected increase in migrants following the end of pandemic restrictions

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