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... last month. The White House wants roughly $14 billion to, among other things, boost the number of border agents, install new inspection machines to detect fentanyl and increase staffing to process asylum cases. The biggest line item in the supplemental funding request is $61.4 billion to support Ukraine. Some ...
... ties. But both Washington and Mexico City are under immense pressure to reduce unauthorized migration at their shared border and to stop the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids that killed around 75,000 people in the U.S. last year. “For two countries that are such close neighbors ...
... earlier. There’s also $14 billion for Israel, $10 billion for unspecified humanitarian efforts, $14 billion for managing the U.S.-Mexico border and fighting fentanyl trafficking and $7 billion for the Indo-Pacific region, which includes Taiwan. The proposal was described by three people familiar with the details who ...
... Commissioner Mingus Mapps has heard from his constituents. He's thrown his hat into the race for mayor next year. Mingus Mapps: Turning around our fentanyl problem has to be, frankly, job number one. Measure 110 is something that we imposed on ourselves, and we can fix it too. Stephanie ...
... He announced his candidacy criticizing both President Joe Biden and Trump, saying the president wasn’t up to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, combating fentanyl smuggling that has led to epidemic of American overdoses and violent crime and homelessness in the country’s cities. “President Biden can’t solve ...
... level playing field" for American businesses in China, and urged China to take measures to prevent the export of chemicals used to make the drug fentanyl, which has fueled a deadly wave of addictions. “Both sides, the Chinese and us, said unless we have sincere conversations about our differences and ...
Sunday on PBS News Weekend, Israel formally declares war on Hamas as it pummels Gaza in retaliation and the death toll mounts on both sides. We get two perspectives on this weekend’s violence and what it means for the Middle East. Plus, a look at the global fentanyl trade ...
... record 37 medals and World Championship and Olympic competition. Two days ago, she won a record six all-around title. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, two perspectives on the war in Israel and the U.S. crackdown on the global fentanyl trade and China's role in it.
... the first American lawmakers to visit China in four years. They met with Chinese Communist Party officials and discussed how to stop the flow of fentanyl into Mexico and how American businesses could better compete in China. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, treating alcoholism with medication and what ...
... an international response.” Blinken and other top American officials are visiting Mexico to discuss shared security issues, foremost among them trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, but also arms trafficking and increasing migration. In August, the U.S. Border Patrol made 181,509 arrests at the Mexican border, up 37 ...
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