Mexican officials find 175 migrants in truck near southern border
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities found 175 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the southern state of Chiapas, the National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday, in the latest mass human smuggling incident to be detected in the country. Immigration agents heard yells and banging coming from inside the vehicle when […]
Essay: Remembering Christians in Indigenous communities this Christmas
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, urges Christians to remember – and pray for – Indigenous communities around the world this Christmas…
‘We need to work’: Hundreds of migrants form new US-bound caravan in Mexico
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Hundreds of Central American and Haitian migrants formed a new caravan on Friday in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, and began walking north toward the United States. The migrants said they wanted to leave Chiapas as they had not been given humanitarian visas promised by Mexico or transferred […]
“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 […]
Punished for being poor? Mexico child labour case makes poverty a crime, critics say
Mexico CityThomson Reuters Foundation The arrest of three Mexican women accused of trafficking more than 20 children from within their extended family has been criticised by rights activists, who say they are being punished for being poor. Prosecutors found the malnourished children during a raid last month on a house in Chiapas, the country’s poorest […]