Updated: Mexico disperses migrants at southern border, as others arrive north
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Mexico sought to deal with an unfolding migrant crisis on Tuesday as it dispersed thousands on its southern border, even as migrants on the other side of the country defied new enforcement measures and continued to arrive at northern cities by cargo train. Large numbers of migrants have been crossing […]
Mexican officials find 129 migrants in truck amid heat wave
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities found 129 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz, the National Migration Institute said in a statement on Saturday. The migrants were crammed into a trailer in the midst of a heat wave in Mexico, where higher-than-normal temperatures have topped 45 degrees […]
Head of Mexican migration authority charged over deadly Juarez fire
Mexico City Reuters A judge in northern Mexico has ordered the head of the national migration authority charged over a fire late last month that killed 40 migrants at a holding center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said on Sunday. National Immigration Institute Commissioner Francisco Garduno arrives at the Federal Court to attend […]
Prosecutors probe Mexico immigration chief over fire that killed 40 migrants
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The head of Mexico’s immigration agency, Francisco Garduno, is under investigation over a deadly fire last month at a migrant detention center in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday. A view shows migrants camp outside the immigration detention centre where several migrants […]
Updated: At least 40 die in fire during protest at migrant centre in Mexico, officials say
Updated: 10:20am (AEDT), 29th March, 2023Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters At least 40 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention centre in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently caused by a protest over deportations, officials said Tuesday. Mexican President Andres Manuel […]
103 unaccompanied minors found in abandoned trailer in Mexico, government says
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities found 103 unaccompanied minors mostly from Guatemala inside an abandoned truck trailer in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the government said on Monday, in one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico. In addition to the 103 children, authorities found 212 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, […]
Migrants tell of mass kidnappings in Mexico before crossing into the US
Ciudad Juarez, MexicoReuters Many of the hundreds of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso this week were part of a group kidnapped in Mexico as they made their way to the United States, according to nine migrants interviewed by Reuters. Testimony from the nine migrants suggests there were multiple […]
Mexican officials clear out migrant camp at Texas border
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities have cleared a makeshift encampment of migrants in the northern border city of Reynosa that had grown over the past year to hold some 2,000 people, Mexico’s migration institute (INM) said on Tuesday. Many of the migrants, who are mainly from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, were taken to […]
Mexico detains almost 6,000 foreign migrants in four days
Mexico CityReuters Mexico detained almost 6,000 foreign migrants in a four-day span, the country’s National Migration Institute (INM) said on Monday. The majority of the 5,688 migrants detained from 21st to 24th April were found in safe houses, trailers, or hidden in bus compartments or truck cabins, the INM said in a statement. Members […]
Mexican authorities clear makeshift migrant camp near US border
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities on Sunday cleared a makeshift camp in the north of the country where hundreds of migrants heading towards the US border had been holding out for more than a year in what rights organisations criticised as deplorable conditions. Nearly 400 migrants have been transferred by bus to three different shelters […]