Mexico steps up migrant raids in city near Guatemalan border
2 years, 10 months ago

Mexico steps up migrant raids in city near Guatemalan border

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Mexican immigration agents and National Guard have stepped up raids on migrants staying in small hotels and on the streets of the southern city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, activists said Thursday. The city has become a sort of way station for migrants from Central America, Haiti, Cuba and other places, because Mexico requires many people file for refugee or asylum status there. “They filled three vans with migrants.” Salvadoran migrant Mario Guzmán was detained by immigration agents a few weeks ago in Tapachula’s central park, even though he had papers showing he made a claim for asylum. The International Rescue Committee, a migrant aid group, said in a statement it “is deeply concerned by the recurring deployment of security forces in Mexico to block the way of people in need of protection.” The immigration institute said Monday there has been a surge in detentions, with the number of migrants detained in Mexico up 78% in January from a year ago.

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Migrants in sanctuary city shelter react to Trump's election win and his promise to deport them
1 month, 1 week ago

Migrants in sanctuary city shelter react to Trump's election win and his promise to deport them

Daily Mail  

Some of the migrants in sanctuary city New York are already 'terrified' of being deported by Donald Trump - but others are convinced they'll be free from persecution because they aren't criminals. I’m already planning on traveling to Costa Rica,' Venezuelan asylum seeker Luis told DailyMail.com on Thursday following Trump's win 'Why would you come here and steal? A caravan …

Mexican Cartel Controls Flow of Migrants on Their Way to the US Border
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mexican Cartel Controls Flow of Migrants on Their Way to the US Border

Associated Press  

The article explores the intricate and complex control exercised by organized crime over the flow of migrants on their journey to the US border. It highlights the strict control of who moves here by cartel members, with migrants often forced to pay hefty ransoms for their release. The article also sheds light on the violence and extortion tactics employed by …

U.S. expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north
4 months ago

U.S. expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north

LA Times  

Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, as they journey toward the U.S. border. World & Nation Migrants play ‘the asylum lottery’ on controversial U.S. government app Depending on whom you ask, the federal immigration app CBP One is a solution to the border crisis, a human rights violation or a ploy to let anyone …

Some Mexican shelters see crowding south of the border as Biden’s asylum ban takes hold
6 months, 1 week ago

Some Mexican shelters see crowding south of the border as Biden’s asylum ban takes hold

Associated Press  

MATAMOROS, Mexico — Some shelters south of the U.S. border are caring for many more migrants now that the Biden administration stopped considering most asylum requests, while others have yet to see much of a change. In Tijuana, directors of four large shelters said this week that they haven’t received a single migrant deported since the asylum ban took effect. …

Caravan of 3,000 migrants blocks highway in southern Mexico
1 year, 1 month ago

Caravan of 3,000 migrants blocks highway in southern Mexico

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti on Wednesday blocked traffic on one of Mexico’s main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the U.S. border. The contingent, including many women and children, later stopped walking at Huixtla, another town in the southern state of Chiapas, where they tried to get …

Some 5,000 migrants set out on foot from Mexico’s southern border, tired of long waits for visas
1 year, 1 month ago

Some 5,000 migrants set out on foot from Mexico’s southern border, tired of long waits for visas

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — About 5,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti set out on foot from Mexico’s southern border Monday, walking north toward the U.S. The migrants complained that processing for refugee or exit visas takes too long at Mexico’s main migrant processing center in the city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border. In the past, he said, …

Migrants burst into southern Mexico asylum office demanding papers
1 year, 3 months ago

Migrants burst into southern Mexico asylum office demanding papers

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Migrants, mostly from Haiti, burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico on Monday, demanding papers. Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route. Andrés Ramírez Silva, the director of Mexico’s refugee agency, …

Mexico on track to break asylum application record
1 year, 3 months ago

Mexico on track to break asylum application record

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route. Andrés Ramírez Silva, the director of Mexico’s refugee agency, said Thursday that the number of asylum applications his agency receives this year could reach 150,000, …

Mexican border city struggles to find space for migrants even with a new shelter
1 year, 4 months ago

Mexican border city struggles to find space for migrants even with a new shelter

Associated Press  

MATAMOROS, Mexico — At a massive encampment near an international bridge along the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants from Honduras, Haiti, Venezuela and elsewhere have turned scraps of plastic, poster board and rope into makeshift homes. Mexico’s immigration agency and a Catholic aid group are offering what may be at least a partial solution to conditions in this and other camps just …

Some 50 migrants kidnapped by gang in northern Mexico, president says
1 year, 7 months ago

Some 50 migrants kidnapped by gang in northern Mexico, president says

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though nine were later found, Mexico’s president and police said Wednesday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said National Guard troops were searching for the migrants in an area around the northern city of Matehuala. …

Some 50 migrants kidnapped by gang in northern Mexico, president says
1 year, 7 months ago

Some 50 migrants kidnapped by gang in northern Mexico, president says

The Independent  

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Over 2,000 migrants kidnapped in Mexico last year
1 year, 7 months ago

Over 2,000 migrants kidnapped in Mexico last year

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government said Friday over 2,000 migrants were kidnapped by smuggling gangs and drug cartels last year, as authorities mounted a successful search for 10 Colombians abducted in northern Mexico this week. Mexico’s national immigration agency said authorities had freed 2,115 migrants of all nationalities kidnapped by gangs in 2022. Prosecutors in the northern border state of …

Fire breaks out at migrant detention facility in Mexico; several people dead
1 year, 8 months ago

Fire breaks out at migrant detention facility in Mexico; several people dead

The Hindu  

Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people, the president said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup. The high level of frustration in Ciudad Juarez was evident earlier this month when hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants tried to …

Migrants flee more countries, regardless of US policies
2 years ago

Migrants flee more countries, regardless of US policies

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — In 2014, groups of unaccompanied children escaping violence in Central America overwhelmed U.S. border authorities in South Texas. A Trump-era ban on asylum, granted a brief extension by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday, was one of the U.S. policies affecting migrants’ decisions to leave their homes. “Many things happened at once but, in the …

US shift on Venezuelan migrants fuels anxiety in Mexico
2 years, 2 months ago

US shift on Venezuelan migrants fuels anxiety in Mexico

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — Jose Maria Garcia Lara got a call asking if his shelter had room for a dozen Venezuelan migrants who were among the first expelled to Mexico under an expanded U.S. policy that denies rights to seek asylum. The U.S. expelled Venezuelans to Tijuana and four other Mexican border cities since Wednesday, said Jeremy MacGillivray, deputy director of …

Guatemala arrests migrant smugglers wanted by the US
2 years, 4 months ago

Guatemala arrests migrant smugglers wanted by the US

Associated Press  

HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala — At dawn, police and federal agents with cover from helicopters flying overhead raided a large ranch nestled among the mountains of northern Guatemala, not far from the border with Mexico. Unlike the ranch’s impoverished neighbors, inside authorities found horse stables, a swimming pool, late model vehicles, guns and a still drunk Felipe Diego Alonso, the alleged leader …

Guatemalan security forces apprehend 18 migrant smugglers, including four wanted by the U.S.
2 years, 4 months ago

Guatemalan security forces apprehend 18 migrant smugglers, including four wanted by the U.S.

Daily Mail  

At least 18 alleged members of a migrant smuggling ring were arrested in Guatemala on Tuesday, including four wanted by the United States in connection with the death of a migrant woman in Texas in 2021. A detainee who identified himself as Felipe Diego Alonzo is escorted off his property during a police raid against alleged migrant smugglers near the …

Mexico relocates migrant camp; Haitians appear at border
2 years, 7 months ago

Mexico relocates migrant camp; Haitians appear at border

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Tuesday they have relocated a migrant camp that sprung up in a park in the border city of Reynosa, moving about 2,000 people from Central American and Haiti to a shelter in the city, across the border from McAllen, Texas. But on Monday, people in another border city, Nuevo Laredo, said hundreds of migrants, …

Migrants march from south Mexico as US lifts COVID ban
2 years, 8 months ago

Migrants march from south Mexico as US lifts COVID ban

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Some 500 migrants from Central America, Venezuela and elsewhere fought with Mexican police, National Guard and immigration officers in southern Mexico Friday in one of the first such marches this year. However, this year the protest came two weeks early and some participants said they would go far beyond the usual short march and try to reach …

In southern Mexico, a crush of stranded migrants clashes almost daily with authorities
2 years, 9 months ago

In southern Mexico, a crush of stranded migrants clashes almost daily with authorities

LA Times  

In Tapachula, Mexico, migrants waiting to travel to the U.S. line up outside the Mexican immigration agency seeking asylum status. And on Friday, after migrants again stormed the office, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute announced that its Tapachula branch would be closed until further notice. “There aren’t any jobs in Tapachula, so how am I supposed to live when the money …

Mexican authorities evict Tijuana migrant camp near border
2 years, 10 months ago

Mexican authorities evict Tijuana migrant camp near border

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — About a hundred members of the police, National Guard and army on Sunday evicted 381 migrants, mainly Central Americans and Mexicans, from a makeshift camp they had been staying in for almost a year in Tijuana at the U.S. border crossing. “It’s inhumane because they did it at dawn and the children were asleep,” said Mexican migrant …

Number of migrants detained in Mexico surged 78% in January
2 years, 10 months ago

Number of migrants detained in Mexico surged 78% in January

The Independent  

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Number of migrants detained in Mexico surged 78% in January
2 years, 10 months ago

Number of migrants detained in Mexico surged 78% in January

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The number of migrants detained in Mexico surged 78% in January from a year ago, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said Monday. Children and youths under age 18 made up 14.5% of the migrants detained, and a total of 780 were found to be unaccompanied by family members, the agency said. Migrants smugglers in Mexico have recently been …

2,000 migrants continue walk through southern Mexico
3 years, 1 month ago

2,000 migrants continue walk through southern Mexico

The Independent  

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Over 2,000 migrants march out of southern city in Mexico
3 years, 2 months ago

Over 2,000 migrants march out of southern city in Mexico

The Independent  

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Feeling trapped, migrants’ fears grow in Mexican border city
3 years, 3 months ago

Feeling trapped, migrants’ fears grow in Mexican border city

Associated Press  

CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico — After more than a week at this crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border, Haitian migrant Nelson Saintil felt like the walls were beginning to close in on him and his family. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute has not provided numbers on how many migrants have been moved from Ciudad Acuña in recent days. “It is the new United …

Mexico faces migration crises on northern, southern borders
3 years, 3 months ago

Mexico faces migration crises on northern, southern borders

Al Jazeera  

Mexico has faced immigration pressures from the north, south and within its own borders in recent weeks, putting it in an increasingly difficult position. Mexico’s northern border Concern has been growing in northern Mexico since the US Supreme Court ordered the restart of the controversial programme that made asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases are processed. The Trump-era …

‘We can’t survive’: Migrants in Mexico protest slow asylum system
3 years, 3 months ago

‘We can’t survive’: Migrants in Mexico protest slow asylum system

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers join caravan bound for Mexico City to demand expedited asylum proceedings. Hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean departed the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Saturday in a caravan headed to the country’s capital, where they hoped to seek expedited asylum proceedings. The caravan comes after days of …

Conditions worsen at asylum seekers’ camps in north Mexico
3 years, 5 months ago

Conditions worsen at asylum seekers’ camps in north Mexico

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, México — Crowding and unsanitary conditions are getting worse at informal camps set up in northern Mexico by asylum seekers waiting to make asylum claims in the United States. U.S. President Joe Biden has abandoned some of former president Donald Trump’s hardline policies, most notably one that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. …

‘I’m trapped here’: Haitian asylum seekers languish in Mexico
3 years, 8 months ago

‘I’m trapped here’: Haitian asylum seekers languish in Mexico

Al Jazeera  

Unable to get US asylum and facing discrimination in Mexico, Haitians say they have nowhere to go and are losing hope. I felt that I needed to leave.” As thousands of asylum seekers have streamed northward to the US-Mexico border in recent months in hopes of entering the US, Haitians say they are facing a second layer of agony: anti-Black …

Mexico president focusing efforts to stop child migrants
3 years, 8 months ago

Mexico president focusing efforts to stop child migrants

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he plans to visit his country’s southern border to discuss with governors and mayors there how to stop the smuggling of child migrants — an issue of growing concern for the United States. But López Obrador said at his daily news conference on Wednesday that the desire to protect …

‘Stuck in limbo’: Metered asylum seekers stranded in Mexico
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Stuck in limbo’: Metered asylum seekers stranded in Mexico

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of migrants on informal waitlists have been in limbo in Mexico for months with no clarity on their fates. “It’s been mostly horrible.” The Strauss Center, a University of Texas research group, says there are at least 16,250 asylum seekers on nine metering waiting lists. On his first day in office, he reversed a legacy of his predecessor Donald …

With migrant arrests on the US-Mexico border rising, Joe Biden's administration has been left scrambling for solutions
3 years, 8 months ago

With migrant arrests on the US-Mexico border rising, Joe Biden's administration has been left scrambling for solutions

ABC  

Orbelina de Leon Lopez has never recovered from losing her daughter to a Guatemalan gang. A crisis on America's border They arrived in early March, at Mexico's northern border, but Ms de Leon Lopez and her daughters still needed help to cross into the United States. According to the Pew Research Centre, last month's arrests at the border were "far …

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