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Palestinians holding foreign passports collect their luggage as they prepare to cross to Egypt from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing on Feb. 6.

World News

What does it take to flee Gaza? Thousands of dollars, paid to an Egyptian broker

10:29am March 02, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

Gaza's borders are tightly controlled and most Palestinians cannot escape the war. Those who can afford it are managing to cross into Egypt by paying thousands of dollars.

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Davide Martello, an Italian man living in Germany, plays the piano for people who have fled Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland.

Near the Polish border, a musician plays music to welcome those fleeing Ukraine

4:25pm April 05, 2022

Refugees streaming across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.

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A protester yells "freedom" towards a person who attempted to stick a paper sign on a truck criticizing the Freedom Convoy protest against COVID-19 measures on Monday.

Ottawa police chief loses job for not acting decisively enough against blockade

6:26pm February 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Trucks rolled out of Coutts, Alberta, on Tuesday leaving just one blockade in Manitoba near the border with North Dakota.

A view of the border bridge in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, Friday evening, Sept. 24, 2021, across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio, Texas.

The Border Is Reopening At Del Rio After The U.S. Clears Migrant Camp

5:31pm September 25, 2021

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement outlining plans to allow passenger and cargo traffic to resume. Earlier, a camp of 15,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, had gathered there.

Migrants stand in line at a respite center in June after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and turned themselves in and were released in Del Rio, Texas.

In Texas, Officials Are Reporting A Surge Of Migrants At The Southern Border This Week

8:44am September 17, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Texas officials call it a "historic surge." Thousands of new arrivals, largely from Haiti, are straining an already overstretched system, and more are on the way.

Deana Quczada of Honduras has been camping with her young children on the street in Tijuana for several days. Going back to the violence in her home country is not an option, she says.

National

In Tijuana, Migrants Seeking Asylum In The U.S. Tell Harrowing Stories Of Crisis

2:26pm May 02, 2018

U.S. Customs officials in Tijuana have begun processing some Central Americans from a caravan seeking asylum in the United States, despite strong condemnation of the migrants by President Trump.

New Airport Bridge Spanning U.S.-Mexico Border Opens

10:24pm December 09, 2015

by Laura Wagner

The new bridge means one of the world's only airports built across two countries now operates on the U.S.-Mexico border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana.