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Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 19, 2018
Trump threatens to send military, shut border as swelling U.S.-bound migrant caravan heads for Mexico
President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border on Thursday as Hondurans and Salvadorans joined thousands of migrants in Guatemala hoping to travel north.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2018
North Korea releases South Korean man detained in July
North Korea released a South Korean citizen detained in July after crossing the border into the North, the South's Unification Ministry said Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 18, 2018
Brief breathing room: Separated immigrants win deportation reprieves from two U.S. judges
Lawyers for immigrant families separated by the U.S. government at the border with Mexico said a federal judge's order barring rapid deportations until at least next Tuesday would give their clients breathing room as they decided their next steps.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2018
Migrant deaths from heat on U.S.-Mexico border up 55% to 48: Border Patrol
The number of migrants dying from extreme heat on the U.S.-Mexico border rose 55 percent in the last nine months after an increase in unaccompanied children and families trying to enter the United States illegally, the U.S. government said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2018
ACLU seeks emergency order to reunify families split at U.S.-Mexico border
A civil rights group asked a U.S. judge to order the Trump administration to reunify more than 2,000 undocumented children taken from their immigrant parents and halt all future separations of families crossing the border to seek asylum.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 26, 2018
Trump calls for turning immigrants away at border as divided Congress struggles for a fix
President Donald Trump reiterated frustration at laws granting due process to illegal immigrants on Monday and said people should be turned away at the border, as expectations faded for a speedy fix in the U.S. Congress to the border crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 22, 2018
'Are you the mother?' A woman's search for baby taken by U.S. immigration
It took 85 days for Olivia Caceres to retrieve her baby boy, pulled from his father's arms at the U.S. border, a traumatic experience many more parents face to reunite with children separated under President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 18, 2018
Democrats rush to border to slam Trump-initiated family separations, visit 'tent city' for kids
Democrats escalated their attacks on President Donald Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from parents who illegally cross the Mexican border, as public outrage over the practice balloons into an election-year controversy for Republicans.
WORLD
May 1, 2018
U.S. stalls over Canadian request to rewrite asylum seeker agreement
Canada wants to change a bilateral agreement to allow it to turn back thousands of asylum seekers walking across the border but the United States is not cooperating, according to a Canadian official with knowledge of the discussions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 5, 2018
Trump sends National Guard to Mexico border to bolster agents amid perceived surge in encroachments
President Donald Trump is directing the National Guard to assist border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 25, 2018
Colombia evicts over 200 homeless Venezuelans from sports field squat as crowds flood border
Colombia on Wednesday evicted over 200 homeless Venezuelans who had been sleeping in a sports field in its border town of Cucuta, highlighting growing unease over an influx of migrants from the crisis-hit neighboring country.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 7, 2017
Attorney general Jeff Sessions calls for efficient review of U.S. immigration cases in bid to boost deportations
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday called on the nation's immigration courts to decide cases more efficiently, amid a burgeoning backlog that is hampering the Trump administration's efforts to deport more illegal immigrants.
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2017
Japan stays 72nd on press freedom list but falls to last in G-7
Japan ranked 72nd on a 2017 list of press freedom around the world — its same overall position from a year earlier — but fell to last among its Group of Seven peers as Italy climbed to 52nd, according to the 180-nation World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday....
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2017
Japan manufacturers wary of possible U.S. import tax, survey shows
Manufacturers nationwide are wary of a possible U.S. border tax, with just over half expecting profits to take a hit if the United States slaps a 20 percent levy on imports, a poll showed on Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2017
Key retail CEOs head to Washington to fight Trump-planned border tax
Chief executives of some of America's largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc., are headed to Washington this week to make their case that a controversial tax on imports would raise consumer prices and hurt their businesses, according to people familiar with the plan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2017
New report says Mexico-U.S. border wall will cost $21 billion, take over 3 years to build
President Donald Trump's "wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border will be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal report seen Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2017
Ford seen benefiting from Trump-proposed U.S. border tax but Toyota would take hit
A proposed tax on imports that President Donald Trump is said to be warming to could upend the competitive landscape for carmakers, boosting Ford Motor Co. while hindering manufacturers that rely more on overseas factories, including Toyota Motor Corp.
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2017
Toyota, Target, Best Buy fight back against 'heart stopping' Republican border tax push
Washington
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2016
Border wall cost taboo at Trump's Mexico meeting but Pena Nieto raised topic: Giuliani
A close ally of Donald Trump said talks about the cost of building a wall with Mexico were not supposed to be part of the discussion during the Republican presidential candidate's recent meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 2, 2015
Germany wants option at border crossings to bar migrants lacking justification for asylum
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere wants to turn away migrants at the border if they clearly have no chance of gaining asylum, a regional newspaper reported, citing a draft bill from his ministry.

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