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, mainly Haitians, have streamed into the city, which is across the border from Laredo, Texas The rush apparently started after the U.S. began processing some asylum seekers there. Bishop Enrique Sánchez Martínez said migrants started streaming into Nuevo Laredo in late April, though the city isn’t usually popular among migrants, in part because it is dominated by the violent Northeast drug cartel. U.S. officials began large scale deportations of Haitians while also allowing thousands to remain in the U.S. Ajic warned migrants against coming to the border, noting the risks.

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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 …

Thousands of Migrants Leave Mexico in Last Week Ahead of Election
2 months ago

Thousands of Migrants Leave Mexico in Last Week Ahead of Election

Associated Press  

A large group of 2,000 migrants left Mexico's southern border Sunday in a bid to reach the United States. The development comes weeks before the U.S. presidential election, which has been a key issue regarding immigration. The migrants, mostly from Venezuela, believe a new administration in the U.S. could put an end to asylum appointments through an online system called …

US border policy spurred migrant camps hundreds of miles away in Mexico’s capital
3 months, 3 weeks ago

US border policy spurred migrant camps hundreds of miles away in Mexico’s capital

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — “That’s it, dude! FILE - A Venezuelan migrant bathes her child at a migrant tent encampment set up on the perimeters surrounding the Santa Cruz y La Soledad Catholic parish church, in La Merced neighborhood of Mexico City, July 16, 2024. Venezuelan migrant Eliezer López spreads his arms in celebration after securing an appointment to seek asylum …

Migrants build makeshift life in Mexico City while waiting for US asylum
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Migrants build makeshift life in Mexico City while waiting for US asylum

New Indian Express  

MEXICO CITY: “That’s it, dude! Many tried to disguise their location to defeat CBP One’s geographic limits, but when U.S. authorities took notice, more migrants began aiming for Mexico City to make their appointments from there, he said. “The CBP One app is probably one of the best examples of that today.” “These folks are asylum seekers, they’re not homeless …

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 …

3,000 migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
5 months ago

3,000 migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border

The Independent  

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Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
5 months ago

Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border

Associated Press  

CIUDAD HIDALGO, México — Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday, as they attempt to make it to the U.S. border. He feared that a new Trump administration might stop granting appointments to migrants through CBP One, an app used by asylum-seekers to enter the U.S. legally — by getting appointments …

Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
5 months ago

Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border

New Indian Express  

CIUDAD HIDALGO, México: Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday, as they attempt to make it to the US border. He feared that a new Trump administration might stop granting appointments to migrants through CBP One, an app used by asylum-seekers to enter the US legally — by getting appointments at …

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. …

Mexican authorities clear one of Mexico City’s largest downtown migrant tent encampments
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexican authorities clear one of Mexico City’s largest downtown migrant tent encampments

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican federal immigration authorities said Thursday they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of migrants. The National Immigration Institute says the migrants had been forced to pay bribes of between $12 and $35 to an official, who they didn’t identify, for the right to pitch a tent in the tightly-packed space. Residents of …

Northern Mexico: More than 11,000 migrants waiting amid border surge
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Northern Mexico: More than 11,000 migrants waiting amid border surge

CNN  

CNN — While thousands of migrants enter the US illegally every day, more than 11,000 people continue to wait in shelters and camps on the Mexican side of the border, CNN has learned from community leaders. The waiting migrants feel “desperate,” according to Cañas – but many have put trust in mechanisms like the CBP One app, which automates scheduling …

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 …

Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt
1 year, 3 months ago

Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt

Associated Press  

HUEHUETOCA, Mexico — A Mexican railway operator announced Tuesday it is temporarily suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process. In recent days, there have been about a “half-dozen regrettable cases of injuries or deaths” among migrants hopping freight cars, the company said …

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 …

Mexico to set up center for third-country migrants and U.S. will take referrals for possible refuge
1 year, 4 months ago

Mexico to set up center for third-country migrants and U.S. will take referrals for possible refuge

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. government announced Friday it will take referrals of Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens from Mexico for possible resettlement as refugees in the United States. “We are announcing our full support for an international multipurpose space that the Government of Mexico plans to establish in southern Mexico to offer new refugee and labor options for …

Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure
1 year, 7 months ago

Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to relieve pressure on its border cities. Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to relieve pressure on its border cities. Segismundo Doguín, Mexico’s …

Is Mexico doing the US’s ‘dirty work’ when it comes to migration?
1 year, 7 months ago

Is Mexico doing the US’s ‘dirty work’ when it comes to migration?

CNN  

CNN — Marilyn Lomas had finally made it. But the enforcement has been chaotic, sporadic and, in the words of a former top Mexican official, “inefficient.” Tonatiuh Guillén was commissioner of Mexico’s National Migration Institute until 2019. Asked whether Mexico was doing the United States’ dirty work when it comes to immigration policy, Guillén said that “Mexico’s migration policy is …

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. …

US-Mexico border sees orderly crossings as new migration rules take effect
1 year, 7 months ago

US-Mexico border sees orderly crossings as new migration rules take effect

Associated Press  

EL PASO, Texas — The U.S.-Mexico border was relatively calm as the U.S. ended its pandemic-era immigration restrictions and migrants adapted to new asylum rules and legal pathways meant to discourage illegal crossings. A full day after the rules known as Title 42 were lifted, migrants and government officials on Friday were still assessing the effects of new regulations adopted …

Border appears calm after lifting of pandemic asylum restrictions
1 year, 7 months ago

Border appears calm after lifting of pandemic asylum restrictions

Associated Press  

EL PASO, Texas — The border between the U.S. and Mexico was relatively calm Friday, offering few signs of the chaos that was feared following a rush by worried migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of pandemic-related immigration restrictions. Daniel Mora said most of the migrants took heed of flyers distributed this week by U.S. immigration authorities offering …

‘What now?’: Scenes from the US-Mexico border
1 year, 7 months ago

‘What now?’: Scenes from the US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera  

The US is seeing an influx of migrants at its southern border with Mexico as a pandemic-era policy came to an end this week. “The question keeps coming up: ‘What now?’ I’ve been asking that question for two years, with no answers,” Nicholls said. “We are at a situation we’ve never been at before.” ‘It may not be enough’ Leaders …

Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas
1 year, 8 months ago

Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas

Associated Press  

MATAMOROS, Mexico — About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said Friday, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico as the Biden administration increasingly relies on that country to host people fleeing poverty and violence. The fires were set …

Tents torched at large migrant camp across the border from Texas
1 year, 8 months ago

Tents torched at large migrant camp across the border from Texas

LA Times  

About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said Friday, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico as the Biden administration increasingly relies on that country to host people fleeing poverty and violence. Margarita, a Mexican woman staying at the …

Over 1,000 migrants, angered by asylum policies, rush to US-Mexico border
1 year, 8 months ago

Over 1,000 migrants, angered by asylum policies, rush to US-Mexico border

Firstpost  

Ciudad Juarez : More than a thousand migrants in northern Mexico surrendered to U.S. border authorities, frustrated by recent asylum policies, and shaken by a fire at a nearby migrant detention center that killed dozens this week. A Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said the agency was processing over a thousand migrants who turned themselves in on Wednesday in El …

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 …

Agents stop crowd at Texas border crossing amid asylum woes
1 year, 9 months ago

Agents stop crowd at Texas border crossing amid asylum woes

Associated Press  

EL PASO, Texas — A large group of migrants in Mexico who were poised to barge into the U.S. over the weekend were blocked from crossing a bridge leading from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said. The migrants were “posing a potential threat to make a mass entry,” and physical barriers …

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 …

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

Migrants flee more countries _ regardless of US policies

The Independent  

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El Paso grapples with surge of migrants, braces for more
2 years ago

El Paso grapples with surge of migrants, braces for more

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, described a humanitarian crisis Thursday as they grapple with the daily release of roughly 1,600 migrants to local shelters and the streets of the border city amid preparations for even larger flows if Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week as scheduled. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser told a news conference that …

Migrants gather in Mexico near U.S. border as Trump asylum restrictions near expiration
2 years ago

Migrants gather in Mexico near U.S. border as Trump asylum restrictions near expiration

LA Times  

Senda de Vida 2 in Reynosa, Mexico, is among the shelters housing more would-be asylum seekers this week. Thousands of migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the United States on Friday as the end neared for Trump-era asylum restrictions. U.S. border cities, most notably El Paso, Texas, are also facing a daily influx of migrants that the Biden administration …

Buses brought the border to New York City. Soon emergency tents will house hundreds of migrants
2 years, 2 months ago

Buses brought the border to New York City. Soon emergency tents will house hundreds of migrants

CNN  

CNN — The latest signs of the crisis New York is facing are massive white tents the city’s mayor says he never imagined he’d have to build. Adams says his city has risen to the occasion, and that New York remains committed to helping the many arriving migrants who’ve gotten caught in the cruelty of a man-made crisis. A system …

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 …

400 migrants escape suffocating people-smuggling tractor-trailer abandoned on a Mexican road
2 years, 4 months ago

400 migrants escape suffocating people-smuggling tractor-trailer abandoned on a Mexican road

Daily Mail  

At least 400 migrants escaped from a hot and airless tractor trailer abandoned by a smuggler in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz on Thursday. At least 94 people were treated for injuries while the rest fled Paramedics treat some of the migrants who were among those found inside and around a tractor trailer ferrying at least 400 people that …

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives
2 years, 5 months ago

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS, Honduras — Children set out hoping to earn enough to support their siblings and parents. “You think that when people have a higher level of education, they have to get more employment opportunities,” said Karen Caballero, the brothers’ mother. The boys had grown up friends and did everything together: playing, going out, even planning to go to the …

Photos: US-bound migrant caravan set to trek through Mexico
2 years, 6 months ago

Photos: US-bound migrant caravan set to trek through Mexico

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants and refugees began receiving temporary Mexican visas as they prepared to continue their trek towards the United States. They had set up a temporary camp on a basketball court in the southern Mexican town of Huixtla, some 40km from where they began their journey close to the Guatemala border. Immigration authorities in Huixtla began slowly …

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 …

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 …

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 …

EXPLAINER: What is the revived US policy on Mexico border?
3 years ago

EXPLAINER: What is the revived US policy on Mexico border?

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration on Monday reinstated a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, seeking to comply with a court order and agreeing to changes and additions demanded by Mexico. About 70,000 asylum-seekers have been forced to wait in Mexico for U.S. hearings under the policy that President Donald Trump …

At US-Mexico border, asylum seekers maintain hope amid hardships
3 years, 1 month ago

At US-Mexico border, asylum seekers maintain hope amid hardships

Al Jazeera  

The US reopened its borders this week to non-essential travellers, but most asylum seekers continue to be turned away. Makeshift camps house hundreds along the US-Mexico border, where US authorities this fiscal year detained a record-high 1.7 million migrants trying to enter the country. I want to go to the United States, but with my mom,” a girl named Evelyn, …

Guatemalan police find 54 Haitian migrants in truck trailer
3 years, 1 month ago

Guatemalan police find 54 Haitian migrants in truck trailer

Al Jazeera  

Migrants were ‘transported to the border’ with Honduras, from where they had entered Guatemala illegally. Police in Guatemala have found 54 Haitian migrants, including 14 children, travelling towards Mexico in a truck trailer with the hope of reaching the United States, according to officials. Scores of Haitians have arrived in Central America trying to reach the US, adding to the …

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

2,000 migrants continue walk through southern Mexico

The Independent  

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Mexico: Thousands of migrants set off from southern city
3 years, 2 months ago

Mexico: Thousands of migrants set off from southern city

Al Jazeera  

Migrants walked along a highway leading west and north towards the US border, before stopping to rest for the night. More than 2,000 migrants and asylum seekers, mainly Central Americans, began walking out of a city in southern Mexico on Saturday where they have essentially been trapped. The migrants walked along a highway leading west and north towards the United …

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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Mexico finds 652 migrants in truck trailers near border
3 years, 2 months ago

Mexico finds 652 migrants in truck trailers near border

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Mexican authorities have discovered 652 Central American migrants in six trailers near the United States border. Authorities said the trucks’ journey appeared to have started in the central state of Puebla and they were trying to reach Monterrey, a key transportation hub for reaching various points on the U.S.-Mexico border. Tamaulipas’ health department said Friday that …

Mexico sends 70 Haitian migrants to Port-au-Prince by plane
3 years, 2 months ago

Mexico sends 70 Haitian migrants to Port-au-Prince by plane

Al Jazeera  

Removal from Mexico follows US expulsions of thousands of Haitian asylum seekers, which drew widespread criticism. Mexico has sent a group of 70 Haitian migrants, including 13 children, on a plane to Port-au-Prince, in what the government said was part of an “assisted voluntary return” to Haiti. In a joint statement on Wednesday, Mexico’s interior and foreign ministries said the …

Texas border crossing where migrants made camp to reopen
3 years, 2 months ago

Texas border crossing where migrants made camp to reopen

Associated Press  

DEL RIO, Texas — The Texas border crossing where thousands of Haitian migrants converged in recent weeks will be partially reopened late Saturday afternoon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. CBP temporarily closed the border crossing between Del Rio and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, on Sept. 17 after the migrants suddenly crossed into Del Rio and made camp around the U.S. …

Haitians heading to US change plans, ready to wait in Mexico
3 years, 2 months ago

Haitians heading to US change plans, ready to wait in Mexico

The Independent  

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All migrants are gone from Texas border camp: Officials
3 years, 2 months ago

All migrants are gone from Texas border camp: Officials

The Hindu  

No migrants remained Friday at the Texas border encampment where almost 15,000 people — most of them Haitians — had converged just days earlier seeking asylum, local and federal officials said. At a news conference, Del Rio Mayor Buno Lozano called it “phenomenal news.” Many face expulsion because they are not covered by protections recently extended by the Biden administration …

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