As Democrats dug deeper into the case for President Donald Trump’s impeachment Tuesday, another House committee sunk its teeth this morning into the makeshift immigration courts cropping up in tents along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreThe federal government can’t employ bait-and-switch tactics to apply new restrictions on asylum to block migrants from making humanitarian claims at U.S. ports of entry after they waited for months in Mexico, a federal judge found Tuesday.
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A former government employee who participated in the Trump administration’s policy of sending immigrants back to Mexico from the U.S. to wait out their asylum claims is now speaking out against the program, calling it an illegal process that endangers asylum seekers.
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In exile in Mexico this week, ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales said he’d learned there was a $50,000 bounty on his head and feared that if he remained there would be a massacre of his supporters.
Read moreA Mexican man sued the United States for $1 million in federal court, claiming a Border Patrol agent shot him from behind as he knelt on the ground, unarmed, in rural Webb County, Texas, for which the agent was charged with aggravated assault.
Read moreOfficials in the small west Texas border town of Presidio are preparing for a surge in traffic as the Mexican government considers rerouting drivers who haul scrap vehicles from the U.S. to Central American countries.
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A federal judge Tuesday restrained the federal government from blocking asylum seekers’ access to attorneys when interviewed about their fear of being returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols – also known as the “Remain in Mexico” – policy.
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The Supreme Court’s left-leaning justices on Tuesday appeared willing to allow a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Mexican teenager shot over the border by an American agent, but the case will depend on whether they can persuade a conservative colleague to join them.
Read moreArchaeologists said Wednesday they have made the largest-ever discovery of mammoth remains: a trove of 800 bones from at least 14 of the extinct giants found in central Mexico.
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A Salvadoran woman seeking asylum in the United States spends her days holed up in her cousin’s cramped slum house just across the border in Mexico — too scared to leave after receiving a savage beating from two men three weeks ago while she was strolling home from a convenience store.
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Under a strong security presence, the remote farming community of La Mora, Mexico prepared to hold the first funerals Thursday for some of the nine American women and children killed by drug cartel gunmen.
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The eight children, some mere infants, who survived the ambush in northern Mexico escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers but managed to hide in the brush, with some walking miles to get help despite grisly bullet wounds.
Read moreA federal judge heard debate Tuesday on whether new restrictions on asylum can apply to those who appeared at ports of entry before being required to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in the United States.
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At least three women and six children from an American Mormon community in northern Mexico have been killed in an ambush in an area notorious for drug traffickers and bandits, a relative said.
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A sloppy operation that captured Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, only to let him go, followed by days of changing explanations has revealed that Mexico’s government has no security strategy at all, experts say.
Read moreThe candle’s flame sputters and then dies in a ribbon of white smoke, the smell of burnt wax mingling with the scents of pan dulce and tequila. Faces of people, long gone now but never forgotten, peer out from behind glasses of milk, cans of Coke and marigolds. A pack of Marlboro Reds, a can of Bud Light, a package of M&Ms and plates of salt and apples complete la ofrenda, the offering, for the traveling souls of our loved ones.
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U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border in the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, bringing the total number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400.
Read moreEight people were killed in gun battles in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan, Mexico, in what Mexican officials described Friday as a failed operation to arrest the son of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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An intense gunfight with heavy weapons and burning vehicles blocking roads paralyzed the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state Thursday after security forces located one of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s sons who is wanted in the United States on drug trafficking charges.
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