US explores refugee program for non-Mexican asylum seekers in Mexico
Washington DC, US/Mexico City, Mexico Reuters US and Mexican officials are discussing a new US refugee program for some non-Mexican asylum seekers waiting in Mexico, four sources said, part of President Joe Biden’s attempts to create more legal avenues for migration. The program would likely be open to Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan refugees in […]
Welcoming the stranger: Miami faith community strains to help new exiles, migrants
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on how faith communities in Miami are caring for migrants…
Some 1,500 migrants crossed Rio Grande into El Paso on Sunday – witness
Ciudad Juarez, MexicoReuters About 1,500 people crossed the Rio Grande overnight from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, a Reuters witness said on Monday, amid an increase in migrant arrivals in the area ahead of the expiry of a pandemic-era order that blocks them at the US-Mexico border. Some of the migrants were clutching bags in […]