Andrea Castillo

Oct 31, 2024 | nz.news.yahoo.com | Andrea Castillo

Migrants, according to former President Trump, are violent criminals, voting illegally, eating your pets, draining emergency disaster funding and stealing your job. These claims have elicited fear, hatred and anger among many voters. We looked into the facts around some of his most frequent statements about immigration and the border, some of which he has repeated hundreds of times. Read more: Trump says he'll undertake the 'largest deportation' in U.S. history. Can he do that?

Aug 21, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Andrea Castillo

As Democrats gather in Chicago this week to rally around the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India as their presidential nominee, her Republican opponent will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border to highlight what he calls the "migrant invasion" and his vow to launch "the largest deportation operation in American history.” The contrast between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump illustrates what an important issue border security has become in this year's presidential...

Jul 16, 2024 | yahoo.com | Laura Nelson |Andrea Castillo

As more Democrats call for President Biden to step aside before the Democratic National Convention, the 81-year-old president has responded with a clear message: I'm not going anywhere. "I beat him once, and I will beat him again," Biden said of President Trump during a news conference last week in Washington. And on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the president told his skeptics: "Run against me. Go ahead. Announce for president.

Jul 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Andrea Castillo

On a Thursday in early June, a Border Patrol bus pulled up to a San Diego County transit station and 50 migrants got out. Immediately, they were bombarded with offers from local vendors:“Free charging, guys,” said a man with a folding table. “Free pizza.”“Senorita, welcome, we can exchange your pesos for dollars,” another man said, making his way through the migrants who were by then crowded onto the sidewalk, a wad of cash in his hand.

Jun 19, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Andrea Castillo

Rep. Mike Levin, a Democrat from California's 49th Congressional District, which straddles San Diego and Orange counties, says of immigration: "We do have a genuine crisis" even if it's not exactly "what Fox News makes it out to be." (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) On a recent overcast Saturday in the manicured backyard of a constituent's home, Rep.