After more than a decade apart, the Pastrana family on Saturday finally got to embrace during a special event allowing nearly 200 families separated by the US-Mexico border to spend three minutes together. The meeting took place in the middle of the murky Rio Grande — which divides the Mexican city Ciudad Juarez and El … Read more
The boy was travelling with his parents when their car was hit A man charged in a drink-driving crash that seriously injured a California boy had been deported to Mexico 15 times in as many years, US officials say. Constantino Banda-Acosta, 38, drove his truck through a stop sign and hit a car carrying a … Read more
Illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border has plunged in the past two months as President Donald Trump’s crackdown takes hold, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Wednesday. Apprehensions of people trying to sneak into the United States, seen as an indicator of the total flow of undocumented immigrants, dropped to 16,600 in March, down 30 … Read more
Entries into the United States by “inadmissible persons” were down 40 percent from January to February, the US government said Wednesday, hailing this as progress on President Donald Trump’s southern border security focus. “The drop in apprehensions shows a marked change in trends,” said Homeland Security chief John Kelly. Trump took office January 20. “Since … Read more
The US Supreme Court appeared divided Tuesday as it weighed a thorny cross-border case involving the death of a young boy shot on Mexican soil by an American border patrol agent standing on the US side of the frontier. At issue before the eight black-robed justices is whether the family of 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez Guereca … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security issued tough new orders Tuesday to begin a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants, putting nearly all of the country’s 11 million undocumented foreigners in their cross-hairs. Two memos issued by DHS Secretary John Kelly order border patrol and immigration officers to deport as quickly as possible any illegal immigrants they … Read more
The Trump administration has issued tough guidelines to widen the net for deporting illegal immigrants from the US, and speed up their removal. Undocumented immigrants arrested for traffic violations or shop-lifting will be targeted along with those convicted of more serious crimes. All 11 million or so undocumented foreigners in the US could be affected. … Read more
Guadalupe Guereca wants just one thing: “Justice.” In a choked voice, the 59-year-old woman recounts the death of her teenage son, fatally shot on Mexican soil by an American policeman standing on the US side of the border. “He was taken away from me forever,” the gray-haired mother said, sitting on the bed in her … Read more
For up to 16 hours a day, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and mangoes grown in Mexico flow north through a border checkpoint into Nogales, Arizona, helping to ensure a year-round supply of fresh produce across the United States. This is a city built on cross-border trade. Each year, some 330,000 trucks and 75,000 train cars carrying … Read more
Tens of thousands of people in Mexico have taken to the streets to protest against Donald Trump’s immigration policies and plan for a border wall. Demonstrators in more than a dozen Mexican cities, dressed in white, waved Mexican flags and anti-Trump placards. Organisers said they wanted to send a message that Mexico was united against … Read more
President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U. S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday. The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher … Read more
U. S. President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along his country’s 3,200-km southern border with Mexico is unlikely to deter migrants fleeing violence, poverty or a lack of opportunities, a Mexican immigration official and activists said. “There is no way to stop a person who wants to migrate or to cross the border,” Rodolfo Figueroa Pacheco, … Read more
His decision comes a day after the new US president unveiled his plan to build a wall along the Mexico-US border. Mr Trump also insisted the US would recoup the costs for the barrier from Mexico, which has strongly objected. Senate Republicans said the US Congress would move ahead with the plan, and it would … Read more
Mexico will not pay for Donald Trump’s border wall, the country’s president has said in a message to the nation. Enrique Pena Nieto said he “lamented” the plans for the barrier, adding that “Mexico doesn’t believe in walls”. But he made no mention of cancelling or postponing a trip to Washington on 31 January to … Read more
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order for a wall to be built along the southern US border with Mexico. He also signed an action to strip funds from US cities that are sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. Mr Trump said in a TV interview that Mexico would “absolutely, 100%” reimburse the US for his … Read more