REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS.- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday condemned a Texas law that would give state authorities broad powers to arrest foreigners suspected of illegally crossing from Mexico into Texas. After a day of back-and-forth court decisions that had left the law in effect for just hours, the Mexican president labeled the Texas […]
Border Patrol officers shot down armed bandit robbing migrants
Border patrol agents in California shot and killed a bandit who was robbing other migrants as they crossed into the U.S. from Mexico. Multiple U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources confirmed that a criminal migrant who crossed the border in the San Diego sector was shot and killed by a member of the Border Patrol’s […]
Border Patrol made a quarter of a million arrests on the Mexican border just in December
Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, authorities said Friday, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term. The Border Patrol tallied 249,785 arrests on the Mexican border in December, up 31% from 191,112 in November […]
371 migrants found in two abandoned buses in Veracruz, Mexico (VIDEO)
371 migrants were located in two abandoned buses. The National Immigration Institute reported on the night of Friday, January 19, that 371 migrants were located in the southern state of Veracruz aboard two abandoned buses. The majority are people from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, China, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, according to the report […]
No border deal will work without Mexico’s help
If Washington can reach a deal on the border, its success or failure could ultimately depend on the reaction in Mexico City. The U.S. already relies on Mexico to help expel migrants from countries such as Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala, and Venezuela, mostly for logistical reasons. The federal government lacks the fleet of planes and trained […]
Mexico’s INM receives record number of refugee requests
Ciudad Juarez official says Mexican IDs make migrants less vulnerable to abuse Mexico received a record number of refugee requests in 2023, as thousands of migrants passing through the country sought protection from deportation. Mexican Refugee Commission (COMAR) Director Andres Ramirez Silva said this week a total of 140,982 foreign nationals filed for refugee status […]
Families of kidnapped migrants had to pay ransoms
Some of the families of kidnapped Venezuelan and Honduran migrants paid ransoms to their abductors before the group was rescued this week, Mexico’s security minister said on Friday. The 32 migrants were kidnapped from a bus over the weekend by armed men aiming to extort money from them and their families in the United States. […]
Members of Mexico’s dispersed caravan are hopeful they will get immigration permits
Thousands of people from a 4,000-strong migrant caravan that has been crossing southern Mexico by foot since Christmas Eve dispersed on Tuesday as they boarded buses to processing centers where they are expected to apply for travel permits today. Buses provided by Mexican immigration authorities took the migrants to facilities in Huixtla, just 25 miles […]
Mexico’s finance ministry suspended payments to the National Immigration Institute in November
The head of Mexico’s immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds amid a record-setting year for migration through the country’s territory. The suspensions were outlined in an agency memo dated Dec. 1 from director Francisco Garduño, whose authenticity was confirmed to the Associated Press by an agency official […]