The Biden administration has come under harsh criticism amid an increasing influx of illegal immigrants who are trying to infiltrate into the US from Mexico. Many say.
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector in Texas have seen arrests of criminal illegal immigrants skyrocket this fiscal year, as agents at the border continue to deal with an overwhelming migration crisis which includes gang members and sex offenders trying to make their way into the U.S.
10 years ago
May 22, 2011: SUNY Canton students celebrated the schoolâs 103rd commencement on Saturday, but they were part of a first-ever event. The 950 students gathered for the first event to be held in the schoolâs new Roos House. âAll graduates are special, but you have the added distinction of being the very first class to graduate here,â President Joseph L. Kennedy said of the new Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center.
25 years ago
May 22, 1996: The Thousand Islands Skating Schoolâs practice sessions and upcoming competition have been put on ice owing to delays in reopening the arena at Bonnie Castle Recreation Center in Alexandria Bay. Since 1992, the school has operated from April to June at the recreation center on Route 12, the only facility in the area providing ice after the end of March. The county closed the arena and other portions of the facility over a week ago because of a faulty sprinkler system and 54 fire and building code viola
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 70. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 56. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Highs are expected to remain in the 70s until early next week, when it will rise into the 80s briefly before dropping back to seasonable levels.
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1856 U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner’s earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks’ cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.