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Monday, August 11, 2025
TopicUS-Mexico border

Topic: US-Mexico border

US court upholds ruling limiting Trump’s asylum ban at Mexico border

Trump had sought to end asylum access for migrants, calling it necessary to stop an ‘invasion’. In July, a judge ruled it violated the law, an appeals court has now upheld the ruling.

US imposes 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes after withdrawing from 2019 agreement

The decision marks a withdrawal from the 2019 agreement to suspend anti-dumping investigation on fresh tomatoes. Mexico supplies nearly 70% of tomatoes in the US.

US troops make first detentions of unlawful migrants in Trump’s new border military zones

The detentions come amidst crackdown in Los Angeles to arrest and deport undocumented migrants.

Watch CutTheClutter: How Trump is setting the tone for an aggressive & polarising presidency

In episode 1601 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses Trump’s rejection of traditional diplomacy & willingness to use executive power to implement rapid changes.

RSF accused of village massacre amid Sudan civil war & other global news you may have missed

ThePrint’s round-up of world news and topical issues over the past week.

US & Mexico discuss measures to boost border security, tackle migration

US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador have ordered their security teams to work together

Mexico asylum-seekers hope for US entry after Title 42, allowing govt to reject migrants ends

The US government Friday ended Title 42, a Covid-inspired provision turning away asylum-seekers for public health reasons, & applied a new rule mandating migrants to use legal pathways.

Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on US court ruling

The pandemic-era measure Title 42 had to expire on 21 Dec, but last-minute legal stays pitched border policy into limbo and made migrants decide they had little to lose by crossing.

In 1st foreign trip as VP, Kamala Harris ensures greater cooperation between Mexico, US

Simultaneously, the Biden administration announced a number of new commitments to combat trafficking, smuggling, and corruption, as well as investments in economic development.

‘La Bestia’ — the train of violence and assault that takes migrants to US-Mexico border

La Bestia is the freight train migrants use to get from southern Mexico to the US border when they can’t afford a bus ticket or a smuggler.

On Camera

MBBS guidelines for students with disabilities reduce a life to a limb

The guidelines ask whether a student can climb stairs, but not whether the college has a ramp. They ask whether a student can bear weight, but not whether the system can bear the weight of its own prejudice.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.