2ND DAY Multiple Ports of Entry and Border Crossing Closed to Deal with Migrant Surges in Eagle Pass, Tx and Lukeville, Az

myrgv.com A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic at an Arizona crossing was limited to shift more resources to illegal entries, U.S. authorities said in the latest sign of how fast-changing migration routes are challenging the government to keep up. ::: Customs and Border Protection said it was closing one of two bridges to vehicles in Eagle Pass, Texas, a town of about 30,000 people that, for a while last year, was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. The agency is also reducing vehicle entries in Lukeville, Arizona, a remote desert crossing that has become a major migration route in recent months.

cis.org The Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend is normally a quiet time, dedicated to pre-Christmas shopping and football. But not in Border Patrol's Tucson sector. Things are so busy in the Arizona desert that head of the Border Patrol in the sector, John Modlin, had to call a media blackout there at 2:46 PM EDT, before pulling his Tweet announcing a "pause" in social media accounts and promising 'to remain transparent' as the border melts down. That would be a welcome — albeit unlikely — change, but fortunately, Congress is stepping in to continue the flow of information to the American people. Not that the news is good.

NOTE Here is a link to yesterday's #OVERLOAD_Unload cluster of articles on this story.

Construction of Chicago's Brighton Park Migrant Camp Moves Forwad and Exposes the Contempt Political Leader have for Local Residents

chicagotribune.com Gov. J.B. Pritzker's recent announcement that the state would spend $65 million to help Chicago set up a tent encampment for migrants before winter sets in came less than two months after the second-term Democrat tried to distance himself from the concept when it was unveiled by Mayor Brandon Johnson. ::: Pritzker in September said he had expressed "concerns" to City Hall about housing asylum-seekers in winterized base camps as an alternative to police stations and city airports where thousands of migrants have been sleeping while awaiting placement in the city's overburdened shelter system.

Human Rights Watch Complains Texas DPS's Car Chases of Illegal Human Traffickers as 'overzealous and reckless'

ktsm.com/#BorderReportCom A Human Rights Watch report released Monday accuses Texas troopers and those involved with the state's border law enforcement of endangering border communities through "overzealous and reckless" deadly car chases. ::: The 77-page report says dangerous chases by law enforcement involved in Texas' border security initiative, Operation Lone Star, have led to crashes that killed to 74 people in 29 months ending in July.

washingtonexaminer.com An international human rights organization said Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) border security initiatives were to blame for dozens of fatalities that resulted from police pursuits of suspected human smuggling vehicles near the border with Mexico. ::: A Human Rights Watch report published Monday alleged that state and local police deployed to more than 250 Texas counties under Operation Lone Star have engaged in thousands of vehicle chases that led to 74 deaths and 189 injuries between March 2021 and July 2023.

Sentors Chuck Schumer (D) and Mitch McConnell (R) at Odds on U.S. Border Funding, but Mostly Agree on Ukraine and Israel

thenationalpulse.com Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has informed the Senate through a 'Dear Colleague Letter' they will be taking up supplemental funding for Ukraine and Israel the week of December 4th. According to Schumer's letter the Senate will likely not include any of the Republican controlled House language (H.R.2) on border security – Schumer referred to the House plan as "partisan" and "hard-right" in his letter.

dailywire.com Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Democrats appear to be espousing "cynical, short-sided politics" in a feud over addressing the southern border crisis. ::: In Senate floor remarks on Monday, McConnell delivered a retort of sorts to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after the New York Democrat issued a warning to Republicans who hope to link national security funds to U.S. border security reforms.

5TH DAY Dublin Riots after Algerian Immigrant's Stabbings; Both Ireland's Prime Minister and UFC's Conor McGregor Vow Different Actions

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar vowed Friday to crack down on racist extremists who fought street battles with riot police — a "Rubicon moment" for a state ill-equipped to combat rising working-class animosity to immigrants. ::: Thursday night's unprecedented anti-immigration riots were triggered by the stabbing of three young children and an adult carer outside their school in the heart of Dublin, critically wounding a 5-year-old girl. Onlookers quickly wrestled a knife-wielding man to the ground — and social media accounts run by anti-immigrant campaigners almost as speedily branded the suspect a foreigner.

Tensions simmer as newcomers and immigrants with deeper US roots strive for work permits (#AssociatedPress)

wsvn.com In New York, migrants at a city-run shelter grumble that relatives who settled before them refuse to offer a bed. In Chicago, a provider of mental health services to people in the country illegally pivoted to new arrivals sleeping at a police station across the street. In South Florida, some immigrants complain that people who came later get work permits that are out of reach for them. ::: Across the country, mayors, governors and others have been forceful advocates for newly arrived migrants seeking shelter and work permits. Their efforts and existing laws have exposed tensions among immigrants who have been in the country for years, even decades, and don't have the same benefits, notably work permits. And some new arrivals feel established immigrants have given them cold shoulders.

National Guard member found dead on Thanksgiving morning at border park (#BorderReportCom)

valleycentral.com/#BorderReportCom A 24-year-old member of the Texas Army National Guard was found dead on Thanksgiving morning while patrolling the border in Laredo, Texas, police told Border Report.The guard member was killed from "a self-inflicted wound while on duty by a public park," Laredo police spokesman Jose Espinoza told Border Report on Monday.

Sen. Joni Ernst says Finish The Wall

newsmax.com Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in an opinion piece on Monday that President Joe Biden's administration should provide states with the means to build their own barriers on the southern border. ::: Ernst wrote in the Washington Examiner: "The Biden administration is allowing about $250 million worth of paid-for border wall materials to sit unused in the desert, spending $50 million a year, or $130,000 a day, to guard them."

Beyond U.S. Migrant and Border Stories from Central European Countries & Greece, France, Germany, North Korea, Mexico, Finland, Spain

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