Frustration among migrants at US-Mexico border as COVID restrictions remain
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/Washington DC, USReuters When Vladimir Castellanos learned that COVID-19 restrictions blocking him and other migrants from claiming asylum at the US border with Mexico may not be terminated this week, he said he felt deceived. Castellanos and his brother are Venezuelans, and they were among dozens of migrants gathered on both sides of […]
Biden under pressure as US-Mexico border arrests reach record highs
Reuters US authorities arrested 1.7 million migrants at the US-Mexico border this fiscal year, the most ever recorded, according to a US Government source familiar with the numbers, underscoring the stark political and humanitarian challenges the Biden administration faces on immigration. The current numbers for the 2021 fiscal year, which began last October, topped a […]
Mexico sends 70 Haitian migrants back home by plane
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a “voluntary return” flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian migrants from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas. Mexico’s interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that […]
US border camp cleared of Haitians, thousands more on the move
Del Rio, Texas, USReuters An impromptu border camp that roiled the US Government was cleared of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelled on deportation flights or returned to Mexico. Reuters witnesses said the jumble of makeshift shelters and tents had all but disappeared from […]
US special envoy to Haiti resigns, blasts returning migrants to “collapsed state”
Ciudad Acuna, Mexico/Washington DC, USReuters The US special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest in a letter that blasted the Biden administration for deporting hundreds of migrants back to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a camp on the US-Mexican border in recent days. Daniel Foote, a career diplomat named to his post in July, said […]
Expelled from Texas, returned Haitians lament lost American dream
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters More than 300 Haitians were returned home on Sunday after the United States ejected them from Texas, leaving many of the would-be migrants demoralised and angry that their search for a better life far away from their impoverished country was over. US border agents began removing groups of mostly Haitian migrants over the […]
WhatsApp instructions, Mexican struggles: How Haitians ended up in Texas camp
Ciudad Acuña, Mexico Reuters Haitians camped out under a Texas bridge followed instructions circulated on WhatsApp to get there, according to a dozen migrants who said the tips delivered to their phones helped them evade checks by Mexican authorities. Over 10,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, were as of Friday sleeping on the ground in […]
Birth on a riverbank: Woman’s ordeal shows risks at US border
NOMAAN MERCHANT, of The Associated Press, reports on the story of one Honduran woman who gave birth while crossing the US-Mexican border as increasing numbers of parents and children make the same journey, driven by violence and poverty in Central America and growing desperation in migrant camps in Mexico…
ESSAY: SEEING JESUS IN THE MIGRANTS AT THE BORDER
Following publication of a harrowing image of a dead father and daughter this week, US Southern Baptist pastor, author and refugee advocate ALAN CROSS, in an article first published by Religion News Service, reflects on the crisis unfolding on the US-Mexico border…