Biden unveils migration plan, capping Americas summit roiled by division
Los Angeles, USReuters US President Joe Biden and fellow leaders from the Western Hemisphere on Friday rolled out a new set of measures to confront the regional migration crisis, seeking to salvage an Americas summit roiled by division. Biden’s aides had touted the migration declaration as a centerpiece of the US-hosted Summit of the Americas, […]
Violence to spur more migration from Mexico, Central America – Red Cross
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Waves of migration through Mexico and Central America, and people who go missing will increase in 2022 due to high levels of violence in the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. “In many countries, violence is wreaking more and more havoc, and that’s why there are more and more […]
US deportations of Guatemalans via air dwindle for second year of pandemic
Guatemala City, Guatemala Reuters The United States, with the completion of the three final deportation flights of Guatemalans in 2021, marked a second year of steady decline in the amount of migrants sent back to the Central American country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guatemala this year received 17,806 of its citizens deported from the United […]
From home to rubble: growing weather risk fuels Mexico landslides
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The landslide that hit the Cerro del Chiquihuite hill on the edge of Mexico City on 10th September buried Eustacia Angel Valentin’s home and three other houses, killing four people and forcing over 140 families to relocate. It was just one of scores of natural disasters to strike Mexico in the past […]
Mexico moves migrants from southern state and awaits return of US asylum seekers
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexican officials have sped up the transfer of thousands of migrants from southern Mexico to other regions, as northern border states prepare to receive asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the United States. Dozens of buses full of migrants, mostly from Central America as well as some from Cuba and […]
Seeking strength in numbers, US-bound migrants in Mexico form new caravan
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters A new caravan of about 3,000 migrants mostly from Haiti and Central America set off on foot from southern Mexico on Thursday, chanting “freedom!” as they headed north towards the US-Mexico border. Many of the migrants embarking from the city of Tapachula near Guatemala said they hope to catch up with another […]
Migrant caravan limps north through Mexico, despite dengue and exhaustion
Mapastepec, MexicoReuters A caravan of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean resumed its trek through southern Mexico on Monday, despite concerns that half of them could be injured or sick, including some from dengue fever. Over the past week, the approximately 3,000 migrants, mostly women and children, have trekked […]
Thousands of Nicaraguans go to Honduras border for vaccines
Tegucigalpa, HondurasReuters Nearly 8,000 Nicaraguans received COVID-19 vaccines at two customs border crossings with neighbouring Honduras in recent days, Honduran health authorities said on Monday, as supplies of the inoculations in Nicaragua have run low. Promoting the vaccines for Nicaraguans, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez wrote in a post on Twitter that “the solidarity and […]
Mexico reports people-smuggling surge amid jump in migration
Mexico City, MexicoReuters People-smuggling crimes in Mexico this year have more than tripled since 2020, the government said on Wednesday, as the country battles to cope with a sharp increase in illegal immigration at the US border. Between January and August, Mexico registered 1,232 people-smuggling crimes, a jump of nearly 228 per cent from the […]
“We are not criminals”: migrants protest in southern Mexico
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Hundreds of migrants stuck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Wednesday protested against the country’s immigration policies that have frustrated their efforts to travel to the United States. Many of the Central and Latin American migrants, including a large Haitian contingent, have been stuck for months in the city of Tapachula […]