Mexico asks for border crossings to reopen during Blinken visit
Mexico CityReuters Mexico pressed US officials to reopen border crossings during a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Wednesday, as US officials sought assistance to stem “irregular migration”. President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking help from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government to reduce migrant flows and cope […]
Closed off: North Korea spent the pandemic building a huge border wall
JOSH SMITH and SUDEV KIYADA, of Reuters, report…
US pauses plans for new border walls at oceanfront park
San Diego, USAP The Biden administration on Thursday agreed to pause plans for a double border wall that critics say would effectively destroy a 51-year-old oceanfront park that symbolises friendship between the United States and Mexico. US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus said he wanted to hear community concerns before settling on a […]
Dominican Republic begins building border wall with Haiti
Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicReuters The Dominican Government on Sunday began building a wall that will cover more than half of the 392-kilometre border with Haiti, its only land neighbour, to stop irregular migration and the smuggling of goods, weapons and drugs. While the two countries share the island of Hispaniola, they are worlds apart in […]
US Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed funds for border wall
Washington, DC Reuters The US Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $US2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the US-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding. The conservative-majority court on a 5-4 vote with […]
IMMIGRATION: HE SURVIVED TRAFFICKING; CAN MEXICAN CHEF WEATHER TRUMP?
US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented rhetoric and crackdown on immigration might alter the fate of millions of migrants. ELLEN WULFHORST, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the story of one of them – and how his faith sustains him…
US, Mexican Catholic bishops, advocates meet to discuss response to Trump border policies
RNS A group Catholic bishops from the US and Mexico joined social justice groups for what organizers described as an “emergency” summit this week in El Paso, Texas, where leaders voiced opposition to President Trump’s immigration policies regarding asylum-seekers and the construction of a new border wall. “Our nation, the United States, has expressed that […]
US: FAITH GROUPS CELEBRATE HOLIDAY SEASON BY DESCENDING ON THE BORDER
JACK JENKINS reports on how politics have changed the way a 25-year-old Christmas tradition was held at the US-Mexican border…
At least 30 US faith leaders arrested in border protest
RNS After a tense standoff with officials at the US-Mexico border on Monday, at least 30 American clergy were taken into custody over the objections of demonstrators, who had come to protest the treatment of Central American asylum-seekers and to decry the extension of a border wall and the militarisation of the border. Priests, pastors, […]