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As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take perilous journey to the US border to seek asylum
There is a major influx of Chinese migration to the United States on a relatively new and perilous route that has become increasingly popular with the help of social media. Chinese people were the fourth-highest nationality, after Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Haitians, crossing the Darién Gap during the first nine months of this year, according to Panamanian immigration authorities.
We cannot escape our past; we can only improve our future
For the second time, as a monitor for the Flores case that outlines conditions for holding minor children, I interviewed unaccompanied minors in an ICE detention center. Prior to Covid, I had done monitoring at the Yuma facility. The experience this time was the difference between noon and midnight.
Mexican abortion-pill networks reach across U.S. border to help immigrants without access
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 states. Founder of Las Libres – “the free” in English – she had built an underground abortion-pill network in a country where having the procedure could have meant going to jail.
Biden intends to make his first visit to US-Mexico border
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border — his first since taking office — in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
Border surge brings shift in migrant countries, challenges to U.S. policy
The surge of migrants at the southern border has included skyrocketing numbers from countries that were barely represented in previous years, presenting a challenge that experts say the U.S. is not equipped to address.
‘Tale of two borders’: Mexicans not seen at busy crossings
As hundreds of migrants line up along an Arizona border wall around 4 a.m., agents try to separate them into groups by nationality.
‘El Jefe’ the jaguar, famed in US, photographed in Mexico
"El Jefe" — or "The Boss" — is one of the oldest jaguars on record along the frontier, popular in Arizona and one of few known such animals to have crossed a border partly lined by a wall and other infrastructure to stop drug traffickers and migrants.
Solving the crisis, anarchy Democrats created is pro-immigrant
For far too long, Democrats have been able to frame their willful indifference to the tragedy unfolding on our southern border as “pro-immigrant.”
Guatemalan data show number of children returned from U.S. is falling
The White House and Department of Homeland Security have mounted a campaign in recent days to tell children who cross the border they will not be eligible for deferred action and will be sent home.
DHS to stop transporting migrants to Arizona
Officials with the Honduran and Guatemalan consulates in Phoenix say no more migrant families are being transported to Arizona from Texas.
‘Major’ human smuggling cell busted in Arizona
Authorities have dismantled a major cell of a human smuggling ring that may be responsible for the transportation of thousands of illegal immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Phoenix and other parts of the country, investigators said Wednesday.
Gutierrez sent a message, but what was it?
Upon causing himself to be arrested during his protest of SB1070, former Arizona Sen. Alfredo Gutierrez stated: “We were sending a message to the Hispanic community.”
