Tag: Guatemala

A boy on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence peers into Arizona following a special 'Mass on the Border' on April 1, 2014 in Nogales, Ariz. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Obama pays price for inaction on immigration law

Michael Barone · July 13, 2014 9:00 pm

Neighbors hold bouquets of Hydrangeas during the burial service of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, in San Jose Las Flores, Guatemala, Saturday, July 12, 2014. The 15-year-old Guatemalan migrant was buried in his hometown Saturday, nearly a month after he became a symbol of the perils facing unaccompanied children who have been flooding illegally into the U.S. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrant boy buried in Guatemala hometown

Sonia Perez · July 12, 2014 10:09 pm

This photo taken through a chain-linked fence, shows Francisco Ramos, wearing a black hat, surrounded by immigration officials, as he identifies the body of his son, whose decomposed body was found in the Texas desert, in Guatemala City, Friday, July 11, 2014. The remains of Gilberto Francisco Ramos , the 15 year old boy who died in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, trying to reach the United States alone, was delivered to his family on Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrant boy’s body arrives back in Guatemala

Sonia Perez · July 11, 2014 8:48 pm

Two-month-old Allison, from El Salvador, is cared for by Sacred Hearts Catholic Charities volunteer Luisa Escamilla, as Allison's mother showers at the shelter set up for immigrant families from Central America in McAllen, Texas, in this photo taken July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)

Don’t let nativism cloud the immigration debate

Shikha Dalmia · July 10, 2014 9:26 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Immigrant debate stale even though immigration facts are changing

Michael Barone · July 10, 2014 8:08 pm

A Family walks trough a street littered with the rubble from buildings that fell during an earthquake in San Pedro, Guatemala, Monday, July 7, 2014. An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Pacific Coast shook a wide area of ??southern Mexico and Central America Monday. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Death toll in Mexico, Guatemala quake rises to 5

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 4:54 pm

A demonstrator that opposes illegal immigration shouts at immigration supporters, July 4, outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, Calif. AP/Mark J. Terrill

Pay us back: Americans want Central America to ‘compensate’ taxpayers for crisis

Paul Bedard · July 7, 2014 4:26 pm

Cipriana Juarez Diaz, mother of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, listens to her husband talk, during an interview at their home in San Jose Las Flores, in the northern Cuchumatanes mountains of Guatemala, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Juarez Diaz said that she begged her son not set out on the dangerous journey from their modest cinder block- and sheet-metal home high in the northern Guatemalan mountains. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Guatemalan boy left for better life, died alone

Sonia Perez · July 2, 2014 7:52 pm

Illegals united: Most crossing border to be with their undocumented parents

Paul Bedard · June 30, 2014 2:58 pm

Vice President Joe Biden turns to Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina during a news conference at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Beltway Confidential

Mixed message: Joe Biden hints that some migrant children would be allowed to stay in the U.S.

Blake Seitz · June 22, 2014 2:33 pm

A makeshift detention center in Nogales, Ariz., is being used as the central clearing station for the latest illegal alien surge. As I've said for two decades, illegal alien amnesties guarantee two things: more illegal immigration and more Democratic voters. (AP Photo)

White House tries to speed deportations of migrant children

Brian Hughes · June 20, 2014 5:43 pm

House Speaker John Boehner called on President Obama to send the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to help push back a surge of illegal immigrants -- many of them children -- from Central America. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner: Send the National Guard to secure U.S.-Mexico border

Sean Lengell · June 20, 2014 5:19 pm