Mexico says it has complied with a 90-day deadline from the United States to reduce the flow of Central Americans through its territory, but activists say Mexico’s crackdown has only forced immigrants into greater desperation and more dangerous routes.
Read moreReversing, a California appeals court found that the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services did not exercise due diligence trying to locate a father who had been deported to Mexico, with whom his adult children had Facebook contact.
Read moreMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador brushed off problems, including a stagnant economy and spiraling violence, to insist Sunday in his first state of the nation address that he is delivering the transformation he promised.
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Mexico’s drug war today may be worse than in the bloody years of the government’s 2006-2012 battles with drug cartels. Back then, the worst of the violence was confined to a few cities. Now it is spread throughout the country.
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A Trump administration program forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico has evolved into a sweeping rejection of all forms of immigrants, with both countries working to keep people out of the United States despite well-documented threats to the immigrants’ safety.
Read moreAn attack on a bar in Mexico’s Gulf Coast city of Coatzacoalcos killed 23 people and injured 13 late Tuesday.
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U.S. trade officials announced a tentative deal with Mexican growers Tuesday night that will head off implementation of a 25% tariff on tomato crops.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that noncitizens are entitled to attorney representation during removal proceedings, and ordered an immigration judge to re-hear a Mexican national’s deportation case because it was unclear whether he willingly gave up his right to counsel.
Read moreWhen Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada became a Nogales, Arizona, police patrolman in 1966, about 80% of the people in the county jail on any given day were Mexican.
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The massacre of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican-American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes of racial violence in the past.
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Mexico’s government on Monday said it considers the mass murder of 22 people in El Paso, including eight Mexican citizens, an “act of terrorism” against Mexicans and hopes it will lead to changes in U.S. gun laws.
Read moreA California man who became one of the nation’s 15 most wanted criminal fugitives after he fled the country ahead of a trial on charges of killing his wife in 2012 has been caught in Mexico and was turned over to U.S. law enforcement Monday.
Read moreA federal judge in California conditionally certified a class of agricultural workers recruited from Mexico to work in a produce company’s strawberry fields. The workers claim they were denied meal and rest breaks, required to pay a supervisor a fee and were not reimbursed for travel expenses.
Read moreImmigration advocates and lawyers said they are gearing up for protracted legal battle after U.S. Attorney General William Barr denied asylum to the son of man whose store was targeted by a Mexican drug cartel.
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Congressional Democrats appear to be moving from “no way” to “maybe” on the Trump administration’s rewrite of a trade pact with Canada and Mexico.
Read moreSplitting with a colleague on the East Coast, a federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Trump administration rule that made most immigrants reaching the U.S. southern border ineligible for asylum, finding the policy placed asylum seekers in imminent danger.
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A federal judge says the Trump administration can enforce its new restrictions on asylum for people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while lawsuits challenging the policy play out.
Read moreMexico set a new record for homicides in the first half of the year as the number of murders grew by 5.3% compared to the same period of 2018, fueled by cartel and gang violence in several states.
Read moreA day after a federal judge sentenced the drug lord to life in prison, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman told the court he would appeal both the sentence and conviction.
Read moreUnless he makes another miraculous escape, the notoriously slippery Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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