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Texas Gov. Abbott vows to continue truck inspections until Biden, Mexico move to secure border
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is vowing to proceed the truck inspections which have snarled visitors on the Texas-Mexico border till there may be motion from each President Biden and Mexican officers to stem the continued migrant disaster on the southern border.
Abbott spoke Wednesday as he signed a memorandum of understanding with the governor of Nuevo Leon that will see inspections stopped on the bridge in Laredo in return for what he known as “enhanced border safety enforcement measures” on the ports of entry and alongside the Rio Grande from Nuevo Leon.
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“The impact of this shall be that the bridge from Nuevo León and Texas will return to regular efficient instantly proper now, it would stay that manner so long as Nuevo Leon executes this historic settlement,” he mentioned.
April 13, 2022: A number of dozen business vans wait to cross the Pharr-Reynosa Worldwide bridge in Pharr, Texas. (Picture by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Pictures)
The Republican governor had ordered that vans coming over from Mexico endure elevated inspections, and are available as a part of a slew of measures to fight the migrant disaster — together with bussing migrants to Washington D.C. Border governors have warned concerning the risks of the huge movement of migrants — in addition to medication akin to fentanyl — into the US.
The inspections have gridlocked visitors for days, with Customs and Border Protections (CBP) saying on Tuesday that wait occasions exceeded 5 hours and that business visitors have dropped by as a lot as 60%.
“The longer than common wait occasions – and the following provide chain disruptions – are unrelated to CBP screening actions and are because of extra and pointless inspections being performed by the Texas Division of Public Security (DPS) on the order of the Governor of Texas,” CBP mentioned in a press release.
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The White Home ripped into Abbott, saying the strikes are “impacting folks’s jobs and the livelihoods of hardworking American households.”
“Governor Abbott’s pointless and redundant inspections of vans transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are inflicting vital disruptions to the meals and vehicle provide chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and elevating costs for households in Texas and throughout the nation,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki mentioned in a press release.
However Abbott pushed again, saying that Texas “has been overrun with a file variety of unlawful immigrants crossing from Mexico into Texas with the help of cartels.” He mentioned that he had been contacted by each the Mexican Secretariat of International Affairs, and all Mexican border governors.
“Till, nevertheless, these agreements are reached with these states, the Texas Division of Public Security will proceed to completely examine automobiles coming into into the US from each Mexican state besides Nuevo Leon.”
He then put the ball into the court docket of the White Home, saying that “the final word method to finish the clogged border is for President Biden to do his job and to safe the border.”
“If you need aid from the clogged border, that you must name President Biden and inform him to take care of the Title 42 expulsion coverage that has been in place for years,” he mentioned, referring to the soon-to-expire public well being order. “You have to inform President Biden to aggressively implement the ‘Stay-in-Mexico’ coverage. You have to name your member of Congress and demand that they maintain the Biden administration accountable, and that you must demand that President Biden implement the immigration legal guidelines which have already been handed by the US Congress,” he mentioned.
He additionally urged these involved with the clogged visitors to place stress on Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and “urge him to collaborate with Texas to finish the inflow of cartel exercise from Mexico into Texas.”
“Clogged bridges can finish solely with the type of collaboration we’re demonstrating in the present day between Texas and Nuevo Leon,” he mentioned.
Fox Information’ Jon Brown contributed to this report.
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For another year, Pershing Square in the heart of downtown Los Angeles will turn into a winter wonderland where skaters and spectators can gather to experience the city’s largest outdoor ice rink.
The holiday ice rink at Pershing Square will officially open to the public with a tree lighting ceremony on Nov. 21, which will feature musical performances by the cast of “Wicked” the Broadway musical. The rink will remain in place through Jan. 12, 2025.
The seasonal ice rink has brought a little bit of the winter weather to sunny Los Angeles for the past 25 years, with more than 45,000 skaters and 221,000 spectators visiting the famed public park located between South Olive and Hill streets.
“The rink fosters community, while embracing winter fitness and fun,” organizers said.
The event this year is sponsored by “Wicked,” DTLA Alliance, KUSC, Metro and Metrolink. Proceeds from the weekslong event will benefit City of Los Angeles Department of Recreations and Parks.
The largest outdoor rink in the city at 7,200 square feet, the holiday ice rink promises to provide “professional-quality ice for skating and entertainment.”
General admission, which includes skate rentals, is $20. Skate “helpers” and storage lockers can be rented for additional fees. Advanced tickets are available to be purchased online beginning Friday.
Private parties are also available on select Mondays and Tuesdays, organizers said.
“Wicked”-themed skate nights will take place on Wednesdays, which will feature music from the show and giveaways; Thursday nights will feature music from local DJs; and Sundays will feature two sessions for skater to enjoy the “soothing sounds of classical music” provided by KUSC radio.
If you’re not interested in skating but still want to experience the novelty of winter sports in Southern California, the Hollywood Curling Club will host three one-hour curling lessons on Dec. 21, Dec. 28 and Jan. 4, 2025.
Willy Bietak, whose production company is organizing the holiday ice rink, said the event is an “absolute must” for Angelenos and residents who want to make the most out of a winter in Los Angeles.
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One group of voters could fuel a win for Democrats in the Arizona Senate race while also propelling former President Trump to victory in the key battleground state.
Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris among registered voters in Arizona 49% to 45% in a new poll from the New York Times and Siena College. This was a notable shift from their numbers last month, when Harris came out on top.
At the same time, Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., bested Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake 50% to 41%.
A spokesperson for Lake told Fox News Digital in a statement, “President Trump’s consistently strong lead in Arizona proves that Arizonans are tired of and dissatisfied with the policies of Kamala Harris and Ruben Gallego that have caused record-high inflation and made our state less safe by opening the border to millions of unchecked illegal immigrants. As voters learn the truth about Gallego’s voting record and the fact that he has voted for Biden-Harris policies 100% of the time, they will reject Radical Ruben just as they reject Kamala Harris.”
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Former President Trump and Rep. Ruben Gallego were both endorsed by the police group. (Reuters)
Her campaign further pointed to a CNN poll earlier this month which showed Gallego at 47% and Lake at 44%, a much closer margin.
According to the New York Times, “The respondents who said they were splitting their ticket – supporting Mr. Gallego and Mr. Trump – were much more likely to be Latino, less college-educated and lower-income.”
The poll was conducted in English and Spanish on cell phones and landlines in Arizona and 2,077 likely voters were surveyed between Sept. 17 and 21. The margin of error is +/- 2.5 percentage points for the likely electorate and +/-2.4 percentage points among registered voters.
Gallego voted 100% in line with President Biden and Harris’ administration in the 117th Congress, per FiveThirtyEight, and is by no means a fan of Trump, and the former president is an ardent supporter of Lake.
Despite their political disagreements, they’ve managed to simultaneously attract a key group of voters.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Fox News )
“You always have to consider in American politics whether gender is playing a role,” Melissa Michelson, the dean of arts and sciences and a political science professor at Menlo College in California, told Fox News Digital.
Trump and Gallego are both facing off against women in their respective races.
“What gender scholars will tell you is that when women are running, they face additional challenges,” she explained.
With Trump’s election in 2016, his strength among those without college degrees became evident. He’s also shown an ability to appeal to non-White voters, including Latinos, who are considered integral to the Democrats’ coalition.
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Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is endorsed by Trump. (Getty Images)
His enduring appeal to these types of voters is on display in the latest poll as well. “And yes, those same voters would be more likely to prefer the Latino candidate,” said Michelson, explaining the preference of some of those voters for Gallego in the Senate race.
She noted that Latinos tend to vote Democrat more often than not and that they also tend to vote for Latino candidates. “If a candidate before you is both your shared racial group and your shared party, then that’s easy,” Michelson remarked.
When it comes to women perhaps feeling inclined to vote for women candidates, she pointed out that gender isn’t “as strong of an identity or as strong of a motivator of vote choice.”
“People just don’t think about their gender the same way they think about their race.”
The potential for a split result in Arizona, with Trump winning the presidency and Gallego taking the open Senate seat, would be notable given the recent decline in split-ticket voting.
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Trump has made gains among Latinos. (Getty Images)
Republican strategist Kevin Madden said the vote is ultimately “candidate-dependent.”
“Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Ruben Gallego in Arizona are examples of two candidates running very carefully tailored races that are customized to their state’s political environment,” he told Fox News Digital.
It’s true that Gallego has made a concerted effort to reach a male, Latino audience. For Cinco de Mayo this year, his campaign held a watch party in Glendale at JL Boxing Academy for a match between champion Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarez and fellow fighter Jaime Munguía, who was undefeated until that point. The venue was reportedly outfitted with large screens displaying the fight, and the event featured food trucks serving birria tacos and Mexican Cokes outside.
The watch party was expected to draw over 100 guests, mainly Latino Arizonans and their families.
Gallego held another boxing event last week at the same venue.
“They’re doing whatever they can to get out of the national political jet-stream and make their campaign less of a proxy on the presidential contest,” Madden said.
Michelson claimed that recent endorsements from the Arizona Police Association (APA) for both Gallego and Trump could encourage the increasingly rare practice of split-ticket voting. Despite backing Trump and reportedly endorsing Lake during her 2022 gubernatorial bid, the union chose Democrat Gallego in the Senate race in 2024.
However, Lake did get the backing of a separate police union, the Arizona Fraternal Order of Police, earlier this month.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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A man was taken into custody after a homeowner in Encino reported a break-in early Thursday morning.
Los Angeles police responded to the home in the 17500 block of Woodvale Road around 2 a.m.
Video showed officers arriving as a man believed to be the homeowner was standing outside talking to personnel from a security company.
The owner told police that a man had broken into his home, according to freelance media fire KNN.
A search of the property resulted in officers taking a man in a striped shirt and glasses into custody.
It was unknown what, if anything, was taken during the incident. It was also unclear if the suspect and the homeowner knew each other.
No injuries were reported.
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