The recent images of tens of thousands of desperate asylum seekers streaming into Europe recall a smaller but significant migration crisis unfolding along the southern border of the United States: Waves of Central American migrants — many of them children — were detained at the border last year. A disturbing […]
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He’s an American success story . . . but it’s a difficult path to citizenship
4 Aug
by Foster, on News
By Steven Goff Miguel Aguilar’s boyhood home in Mexico is a two-story brick structure on the corner of Litografos and Libramiento Regional streets. Beyond a narrow park and divided road, a concrete channel cradles the Rio Grande and divides Ciudad Juarez from El Paso. ¶ Some 1.5 million people live in the […]
Deported mother, daughter may soon be back in U.S. after judge orders their return
22 Jun
by Foster, on News
A Guatemalan woman and her 12-year-old daughter who were deported last Friday, outraging a federal judge who ordered them to be returned immediately, have been found and soon may be back in the United States, their attorney told Fox News Latino. The woman, who has been identified only as Ana, […]
Mexico’s detention rate of Central American minors is up 49 percent since last year, according to Mexico’s National Immigration Institute. The institute says almost half of the detained 11,893 underage migrants were travelling alone or with a smuggler between January and May. Two-thirds of the detained were between 12 and […]