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US BORDER

Japan Times
WORLD
May 1, 2023
Online migrant celebrities bring wave of Chinese nationals to U.S. border
The difficulty of obtaining U.S. visas and the economic aftershocks of China’s COVID-19 lockdowns have led to a sharp increase in migrants from China presenting at the border with Mexico.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden's border travesty
Two years into its term, the U.S. administration of Joe Biden has failed to deliver on its promise of humane immigration reform.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 9, 2023
Biden visits U.S.-Mexico border as immigration issue heats up
Biden toured a section of the wall that divides the two countries, a signature priority of his Republican predecessor Donald Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 12, 2021
Bruised by border politics, some Biden officials cling to Trump order on migrants
The order enables U.S. officials to rapidly expel migrants at both the southern and northern borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, essentially cutting off access to asylum for most migrants.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 1, 2021
Biden tells migrants to stay put. Central Americans hear a different message.
Disinformation suggesting that the U.S. border is now wide open has rocketed across social media and by word of mouth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2021
China’s Himalayan salami tactics
China's new border villages in the Himalayas are the equivalent of its artificially created islands in the South China Sea, whose map Xi's regime has redrawn without firing a shot.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 5, 2021
Biden risks Mexico border crisis as migrant children fill up shelters
More than 5,700 unaccompanied minors were apprehended at the border in January, the highest total for that month in recent years, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2020
China is paying a high price for provoking India
Aggression and expansionism obviously are not genetic traits, but they appear to be defining Chinese President Xi Jinping's tenure.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 21, 2020
Steve Bannon, who rocketed to power alongside Trump, is charged in U.S. border wall scam
After Steve Bannon joined the online campaign We Build the Wall to raise private funds for the construction of a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, he made it clear there'd be “no deals I don't approve.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2020
Nuclear-armed China and India fight with fists, stones and clubs
June 15 could mark the date on which China “lost India” strategically.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 18, 2020
The Chinese way of war
China sends India a message by bringing clubs to a gunfight.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2020
China's border invasion will push India toward the U.S.
India's long history of nonalignment is giving way to the threat of a shared enemy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 21, 2019
Trump camp prepares to send asylum seekers stopped at Mexico border to Guatemala
The Trump administration has begun an effort to send some asylum seekers encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border to Guatemala, a move that promises to transform the U.S. asylum system, according to three officials briefed on the initiative and related training materials.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 10, 2019
California judge restores nationwide block on Trump administration's asylum ban
A federal judge in California on Monday dealt a setback to a new Trump administration rule that sought to block almost all asylum applications at the border, ruling that an injunction against the rule should apply nationwide.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 5, 2019
Single murder charge filed against Texas shooting suspect, with case treated as domestic terrorism
A single capital murder charge was filed on Sunday against the man accused of killing 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others at a Walmart store in El Paso, a mass shooting authorities are viewing as a case of domestic terrorism.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 27, 2019
U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed Pentagon funds for border wall
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 17, 2019
Trump unveils border security and 'merit-based' immigration bill in Cabinet meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump presented a bill to his Cabinet on Tuesday aimed at boosting border security and overhauling the current immigration system to make it more merit-based, a senior administration official said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 16, 2019
Trump to pitch plan to make U.S. immigration more merit-based and border ports tighter
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday will outline an immigration plan aimed at hardening border ports of entry and making the legal migration system based more on a proficiency in English and employment, senior administration officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 10, 2019
More than 100,000 migrants encountered at U.S. southern border in March: data
U.S. officers arrested or denied entry to over 103,000 people along the border with Mexico in March, a 35 percent increase over the prior month and more than twice as many as the same period last year, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 4, 2019
Truckers and stores on U.S.-Mexico border struggle as Trump closure threat looms
Trucks inched through traffic and some stores reported fewer customers in U.S.-Mexico border towns on Wednesday as staffing shortages tied to a surge in asylum seekers slowed checkpoints and threats of the border closing scared away shoppers.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia launched intercontinental ballistic missile during attack on Ukraine, Kyiv says
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is launched during a test from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Arkhangelsk region of Russia, in this still image captured from video released on Oct. 29.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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