Tag: Mexico
MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A...
2.47 million migrant encounters at southern border in fiscal 2023 sets record
Most in US see Mexico as partner despite border problems, poll shows
MIAMI (AP) — Most people in the U.S. see Mexico as an essential partner to stop drug trafficking and illegal border crossings, even as they express mixed views of Mexico’s...
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Venezuelan migrants applying for temporary legal status in US say it offers some relief
MIAMI (AP) — After receiving death threats for openly opposing Venezuela’s socialist government, VÃctor Macedo and his wife fled, staying for a time in Spain before coming to the U.S....
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Some GOP candidates want to use force against Mexico to stop fentanyl, experts say that won’t work
MIAMI (AP) — Ron DeSantis wants suspected drug smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border to be shot dead. Nikki Haley promises to send American special forces into Mexico. Vivek Ramaswamy has...
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With temporary status for Venezuelans, Biden administration turns to familiar tool
MEXICO CITY (AP) — From a White House podium in May, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined new legal pathways to the United States for Venezuelans and others, along...
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After lull, asylum-seekers adapt to US immigration changes, overwhelm agents
JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of...
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Arizona sheriff seeks state and federal help to handle arrival of asylum-seekers in rural area
DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — The sheriff of Arizona’s easternmost border county asked state and federal officials for help Thursday with the sudden daily release of more than a hundred migrants...
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Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage
PHOENIX (AP) — The construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk...
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Mexican abortion-pill networks reach across U.S. border to help immigrants without access
MONTERREY, Mexico – Verónica Cruz Sánchez watched something remarkable happen from the office of her women’s rights organization in Guanajuato, the capital city of one of this country’s most conservative Catholic...
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Smugglers steering migrants into remote desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges
ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a...
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Top prosecutors back compensation for those sickened by US nuclear weapons testing
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by...
