Struggling with US asylum app, migrant families split at border
Mexico City Reuters Dozens of migrant families are splitting up at Mexico’s northern border as they struggle to secure US asylum appointments on a government app beset by high demand and persistent glitches, migrants and advocates say. The anxiety of separation is piling more pressure on families who have often taken perilous journeys through several […]
Venezuelans fret over new US border plan, saying “we can’t go back”
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters Venezuelan migrants stranded on the US-Mexico border on Thursday worried they might never reach the United States after a bilateral deal this week sought to put a lid on a recent sharp increase in crossings by the South Americans. Under the plan announced Wednesday, Washington will grant up to 24,000 Venezuelans […]
US immigration officials accused of targeting faith leader and religious groups
RNS For Rev Kaji Douša, senior pastor of Park Avenue Christian Church in New York, crossing the US-Mexico border is a fairly uneventful activity. A former San Diego resident, she had passed through the US Customs and Border Protection checkpoints many times in the past without incident. But in early January, as she crossed going […]