Author: Sonia Perez
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Trump ramps up expulsions of migrant youth, citing virus
HOUSTON • The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of Texas. Many are teens who left Central America on their own; others were sent along by parents from refugee camps in Mexico. They are as young as 10. Under U.S. law they would normally be…
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Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico • Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent back to their homeland or retreated across the border Tuesday after Mexican troops blocked their way. Fewer than 100 remained in the no-man’s-land along the river between Guatemala and Mexico.…
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First Honduran returned to Guatemala under US asylum accord
GUATEMALA CITY • The United States has begun carrying out a landmark policy shift on asylum that’s a top priority of President Donald Trump, returning a Honduran immigrant to Guatemala to pursue his asylum case. Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the Honduran man had reached the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, but was…
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Migrant caravan arrives in Mexico City, bed down in stadium
MEXICO CITY • Thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan arrived in the Mexican capital Monday and began to fill up a sports stadium, still hundreds of miles from their goal of reaching the U.S. a day before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has made their journey a central campaign issue.…
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Caravan sets sights on Mexico City
CORDOBA, Mexico • Thousands of bone-tired Central Americans set their sights on Mexico City on Sunday after undertaking a grueling journey through a part of Mexico that has been particularly treacherous for migrants seeking to get to the United States. An estimated 4,000 migrants are in the Gulf state of Veracruz, where hundreds of migrants…
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Mexican agents nibble at edges of migrant caravan
JUCHITAN, Mexico • Thousands of Central American migrants resumed their slow trek through southern Mexico on Thursday, as immigration agents and police nibbled at the edges of the two caravans in the country. Mexican authorities haven’t directly targeted the main caravan of about 4,000 migrants, and activists aiding that group said they were shifting their…
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Pressure turns on Mexico as migrant caravan heads to U.S. border
GUATEMALA CITY • As some 3,000 Hondurans made their way through Guatemala, attention turned to Mexico, after President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to close the U.S.-Mexico border if authorities there fail to stop them — a nearly unthinkable move that would disrupt hundreds of thousands of legal freight, vehicle and pedestrian crossings each day. With…