Tag: Guatemala

Cristian Mejia, of El Salvador, waits with others in line for food, outside of a shelter for members of the migrant caravan, in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

A fee for asylum won’t buy an immigration fix

Erin Dunne · April 30, 2019 1:50 pm

In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, Carlos, 34, holds his son Carlos, 7, as they wait to get breakfast at the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter, in Nogales, Mexico.

Mexico says it deported 15,000 migrants in April but thousands are still headed north

Anna Giaritelli · April 23, 2019 6:30 pm

Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on the shoulder of a road in Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, Friday, April 12, 2019. The group pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula, the latest caravan to enter Mexico.

Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico

Associated Press · April 13, 2019 1:13 pm

Trump first floated the idea of taxing or halting person-to-person wire transfers, known as remittances, during his bid for the White House.

Immigrants send record $148 billion home, Latin America, China tops

Paul Bedard · April 4, 2019 12:24 pm

Police stand by as locals begin their journey north toward the U.S. border, during a migrant caravan passing through the capital of San Salvador, El Salvador, early Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Want less immigration? Increase aid to Latin America — don't cut it

Erin Dunne · April 1, 2019 3:44 pm

Fox News issues correction to ‘3 Mexican countries’ headline

Zach Halaschak · March 31, 2019 9:24 pm

Honduran President, left, speaks as Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen listens during a meeting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Deal made to ‘stem irregular migration’ coming from Central America, says Trump official

Anna Giaritelli · March 28, 2019 6:43 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 18, 2017.

Trump budget requests money for Central American countries despite threat to pull aid

Melissa Quinn · March 28, 2019 7:06 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

The onslaught of lawfare against Trump, Netanyahu, and Guatemala’s Jimmy Morales

Washington Examiner · March 28, 2019 4:00 am

Migrants from Honduras and El Salvador stand in line waiting to enter bridge over the Suchiate River on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, early Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

Some 700 Cuban migrants join Central American caravan traveling on foot to US-Mexico border

Anna Giaritelli · March 25, 2019 7:20 pm

Honduras migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 18,2019. Hundreds of Central American migrants are walking and hitchhiking through the region as part of a new caravan of migrants hoping to reach the United States.

Record $120 billion sent home to 3 top nations flooding US with illegal immigrants

Paul Bedard · March 20, 2019 12:50 pm

Migrants hitch a ride on the back of a truck as a thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans hoping to reach the U.S. border moves onward from Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Thousands of migrants resumed their slow trek through southern Mexico on Thursday, after attempts to obtain bus transport to Mexico City failed.

Mexican highwaymen kill migrants after failing to extort payment in exchange for passage

Anna Giaritelli · March 5, 2019 1:27 am