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One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric
2 months, 4 weeks ago

One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric

Associated Press  

As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. “This is the dream for most Cubans: Come to the United States to work and help your family back home.” 5 a.m. Friday, Aug. 9 Hundreds of miles away near McAllen, Border Patrol agents Christina Smallwood …

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‘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 …

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Mexican migrants facing stiff challenge with tougher US policy pin hopes on asylum app
1 year, 7 months ago

Mexican migrants facing stiff challenge with tougher US policy pin hopes on asylum app

India Today  

Oriana Silva, a 30-year-old Venezuelan mother of two, was so determined to make it to the United States that she entered illegally and was expelled back to Mexico five times in seven months. As US COVID-era border restrictions give way to strict new asylum rules on Friday, she and other migrants in Mexico have opted to forgo unlawful crossings and …

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US bears ‘moral weight’ of Mexico migrant tragedy: Advocates
1 year, 8 months ago

US bears ‘moral weight’ of Mexico migrant tragedy: Advocates

Al Jazeera  

Ciudad Juarez blaze that killed at least 38 migrants comes amid increasingly restrictive policies at US-Mexico border. US Customs and Border Protection has been allowing people to seek asylum at a US port of entry only after they secure an appointment through a mobile app that immigrant rights groups say is “unreliable”. “It is just a mountain of countries that …

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Fire at migrant detention facility in Mexico kills 38 men
1 year, 8 months ago

Fire at migrant detention facility in Mexico kills 38 men

Al Jazeera  

Another 28 people injured in deadly blaze at an immigration holding centre in Ciudad Juarez near the US border. At least 38 people died in the fire and 28 injured people were taken to hospitals, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said in a statement. Reporting from Mexico City, Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo said tensions have been high in Ciudad Juarez recently …

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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

LA Times  

Cars line up at the Paso del Norte international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, below, on the border with El Paso, Texas, top, on Nov. 8, 2021. A large group of migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was blocked from crossing a bridge to El Paso over the weekend, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said. The migrants were “posing …

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Asylum seekers are gathering at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is why
2 years ago

Asylum seekers are gathering at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is why

LA Times  

The first time Mari Marin Bastidas tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border, she was turned away by authorities who said a policy instituted to slow the spread of COVID-19 meant her case would not even get a hearing. “I’m not going back anymore.” The fate of the policy now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court as anxiety and …

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Migrants at US-Mexico border await ruling on asylum limits
2 years ago

Migrants at US-Mexico border await ruling on asylum limits

Associated Press  

EL PASO, Texas — Francisco Palacios waited for four hours with his wife and 3-year-old daughter at a border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego early Wednesday before going to a nearby hotel for a three-hour nap. “I want them to decide” on the public health rule known as Title 42, said Morey, who arrived six weeks ago in the …

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Migrants hopeful, suspicious at US reopening to asylum
2 years, 8 months ago

Migrants hopeful, suspicious at US reopening to asylum

Associated Press  

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — More than a dozen migrants excitedly ran out of their dormitory at the Good Samaritan shelter here at the mere mention that the Biden administration may lift a rule that expels people at the border before they can request a chance at humanitarian protection in the United States. “Now that there are organizations that can help …

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Indigenous asylum seekers struggle for interpreters in US
3 years, 5 months ago

Indigenous asylum seekers struggle for interpreters in US

Al Jazeera  

A shortage of translators for Indigenous asylum seekers means many have to wait months or years in Mexico to apply for asylum. “Although Indigenous and other rare languages make up a small number of pending MPP cases—just 337 out of 29,423—the need for language access presents unique challenges for both migrants and the Immigration Courts”, according to an April 26 …

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Haitians in Mexico see bleak choices as they seek protection
3 years, 6 months ago

Haitians in Mexico see bleak choices as they seek protection

Associated Press  

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Adrián is trying to settle in to his third new city since 2016, when his wife was raped and mother was killed in Haiti. “Why do they send us back to Haiti?” he said outside a cheap Mexican hotel blocks from the border with El Paso, Texas, where he was living with his wife and about …

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Border crossings on pace for two-decade high as smugglers exploit high hopes for Biden
3 years, 9 months ago

Border crossings on pace for two-decade high as smugglers exploit high hopes for Biden

LA Times  

As dusk closed in on the Texas border with Mexico, Melania Rivera and her 3-year-old twin boys climbed up the banks of the Rio Grande, at last setting foot in the United States. “A lot of them think that now that Trump is gone, if they arrive with children it will be easy to cross into the United States,” said …

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Rights group urges Biden to end ‘Remain in Mexico’ programme
3 years, 11 months ago

Rights group urges Biden to end ‘Remain in Mexico’ programme

Al Jazeera  

New Human Rights Watch report says US migration programme subjected asylum seekers to harm while in Mexico. The administration of President Donald Trump championed two years ago the United States Migrant Protection Protocols or the “Remain in Mexico” policy, to deter migrants from claiming asylum along the US’s southern border. Human Rights Watch in a report issued on Wednesday said …

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Asylum seekers in limbo look to US election with hope and fear
4 years, 1 month ago

Asylum seekers in limbo look to US election with hope and fear

Al Jazeera  

Medellin, Colombia – When Jose Luis Pino walks outside in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, he is too scared to speak. “We’re just trying to survive until our court date.” He is among more than 67,000 asylum seekers including Cubans, Venezuelans and Central Americans who are stuck on the US border due to a Trump administration policy, Migrant Protection Protocols, also known …

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