Tag: Central America

ICE testing 10-year-old migrant girls for pregnancy due to risk of sexual assault

Anna Giaritelli · March 6, 2019 6:00 pm

In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, photos, a line of migrants recently released by U.S. immigration authorities waits to check in at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas.

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The wall won’t matter so long as the asylum loophole goes unfixed

Eddie Scarry · March 6, 2019 5:07 pm

A razor-wire-covered border wall separates Nogalas, Mexico, at right, and Nogales, Ariz. at dusk Saturday, March 2, 2019.

US on track to apprehend 900,000 people at border this year: Nielsen

Anna Giaritelli · March 6, 2019 4:24 pm

A Central American migrant carries a child as he waits for his humanitarian visa from Mexican migration officials to be processed, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019.

Mexico becoming a ‘destination country’ for Central American migrants

Anna Giaritelli · March 6, 2019 12:43 pm

February marked 12-year-high for illegal immigration: 76,000 encountered at southern border

Anna Giaritelli · March 5, 2019 6:42 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.

Nearly 12,000 Central American migrants in Mexico have gone back since January

Anna Giaritelli · March 5, 2019 2:35 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

U.S. Border Patrol Customs and Border Protection Chief Carla Provost testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.

Trump’s top Border Patrol official explains the two crises America faces at the border

Anna Giaritelli · February 27, 2019 12:36 am

The pro-Trump super PAC America First Action is placing ad in three states, and launching a website, hitting the former vice president as a China cheerleader.

Migrants attack unarmed officials as they cross from Guatemala into Mexico: WATCH

Anna Giaritelli · February 22, 2019 10:27 pm

Border Patrol: Illegal immigrants lost in Texas desert called us for help

Anna Giaritelli · February 21, 2019 9:37 pm

In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, photo, provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mothers and their children stand in line at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Currently housing 1,520 mothers and their children, about 10 percent are families who were temporarily separated and then reunited under a âzero tolerance policyâ that has since been reversed.

97 percent of migrants kids ordered to be reunited with their parents have been released

Anna Giaritelli · February 21, 2019 9:13 pm

A woman arrives with donations at a shelter housing Central American immigrants in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.

Mexico closes massive migrant shelter near Texas border

Anna Giaritelli · February 19, 2019 10:06 pm