Tag: Mexico

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is sending 1,000 National Guard troops to the Lone Star State's border with Mexico in an attempt to contain the flood of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. (AP Photo)

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Has Texas Gov. Rick Perry thrown down the gauntlet to Obama on immigration?

Mark Tapscott · July 22, 2014 12:27 pm

In this July 12, 2014, photo, a young boy is helped down from a freight car, as Central American migrants board a northbound freight train in Ixtepec, Mexico. Many smugglers take their charges from the southern Chiapas or Oaxaca states to Mexico City on La Bestia, the decrepit freight train, and from there, they choose one of three main routes: to Reynosa in Tamaulipas, Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, or cross the Sonoran desert to the outskirts of Mexicali. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migration spotlights Mexican ‘coyote’ smugglers

E. EDUARDO CASTILLOCHRISTOPHER SHERMAN · July 22, 2014 2:26 am

In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 photo, boys watch television in their room at The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Mexico. For more than six decades, poor parents struggling to support their children or raise troubled youths sent them to the group home in western Mexico run by a woman who gained a reputation as a secular saint. On July 15, heavily armed federal police and soldiers raided the home and arrested nine caretakers, including the 79-year-old woman known as Mama Rosa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico declares group home owner mentally unfit

Eduardo Castillo · July 22, 2014 1:10 am

White House reports drop in minors crossing border

Washington Examiner · July 22, 2014 1:01 am

Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Immigration crisis is bordering on madness

Thomas Sowell · July 21, 2014 7:28 pm

In this Saturday, July 12, 2014 photo, shoes are seen beside the train tracks in Ixtepec, Mexico. Migrants pay thousands of dollars per person for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks that in turn pays off government officials, gangs operating on trains and drug cartels controlling the routes north. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrant smuggler costs for crossing Mexico to US

The Associated Press · July 21, 2014 6:11 pm

Boys watch television in their room at The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Owner of raided Mexico shelter freed, no charges

Maria Verza · July 20, 2014 11:07 pm

A boy peers out through the door of a cell-like room inside The Great Family group home in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Owner of raided Mexico child shelter was admired

Olga Rodriguez · July 19, 2014 10:06 pm

Zogby Report Card: Pollster urges public to let Obama ‘do his job,’ avoid ‘potshots’

Paul Bedard · July 19, 2014 9:00 am

Boys and young men line up to receive a meal provided by the government, at The Great Family group home in Zamora, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat and raped residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Some defend founder of Mexican shelter

Olga Rodriguez · July 17, 2014 11:08 pm

VIDEO: Immigration deal may hang on 2008 law

Steve Doty · July 17, 2014 5:35 pm

Relatives waiting to be reunited with their children stand behind a police cordon outside The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Michoacan State, Mexico, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Mexican prosecutors said Wednesday that victims told harrowing tales of sexual abuse, beatings, hunger and filth, in a once well-regarded group home where authorities freed hundreds of adults and children in a raid. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico: Sex abuse at group home house of horror

Olga Rodriguez · July 17, 2014 3:56 am