ARRIAGA, Mexico—A caravan of about 2,000 migrants on Monday resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised. The original caravan of about 6,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, and Central America had started walking on Christmas Eve. But after New Year’s Day, the government […]
A large caravan of 8,000 to 10,000 illegal immigrants is making its way through Mexico as Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico city to discuss border security and illegal immigration. NTD spoke to Victor Avila, a retired special agent at HSI-ICE, who has just returned from Eagle […]
Thousands of migrants moved slowly north across the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Tuesday in a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, one day before top U.S. officials planned to visit Mexico to discuss migration. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas will visit Mexico to meet […]
Thousands of migrants continued on Christmas Day walking through southern Mexico, heading toward the border with the United States. On Sunday, the group of mostly Central American and Caribbean migrants had walked more than 9 miles from the southern border city Tapachula to get to Alvaro Obregon, with plans to set off again around 4 […]
Around 3,000 migrants set out on Sunday in a large caravan from southern Mexico and began walking north in what organizers said was a protest demanding an end to detention centers like the one that burned down last month, killing dozens. The migrants, mostly Venezuelans, started walking north early Sunday from Tapachula, a city in […]
The perpetrator in the Loudoun County high school bathroom sexual assault case is found guilty, President Joe Biden’s controversial proposal to monitor Americans’ bank accounts is scrutinized, and NTD visits Del Rio, Texas, to find out how border residents feel about the latest caravan approaching the United States.
The other day, 9,000 migrants left Honduras in a caravan headed for the United States. However, it looks like they are meeting resistance from police in Guatemala and Mexico. Meanwhile, in recognition of the Trump administration’s peace efforts, the king of Morocco has given President Trump the highest award that he can—”The Order of Muhammad.” […]
Trump honors Louisiana State University’s football champions: the Tigers, the U.S. military reveals that the Jan. 8 missile strike in Iraq injured eleven U.S. service members, and another South American caravan is on its way to the United States.
GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA—At least 2,200 people have entered Guatemala as part of a fast-growing U.S.-bound caravan from Honduras, authorities said on Thursday, putting pressure on the region to satisfy Trump administration demands to curb illegal immigration. U.S. border agents looked on as the group of Central American migrants crossed into Guatemala on their way north, a […]
MEXICO CITY—Mexican soldiers, armed police, and migration officials blocked hundreds of migrants after they crossed the border from Guatemala in a caravan into southern Mexico on June 5, and detained dozens of them, a witness from a migrant aid group and an official said. The Mexican response in the border town of Metapa, which included […]
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Mexico has to regulate the flow of migrants from Central America who travel through Mexico to cross into the United States illegally after U.S. President Donald Trump on March 29 threatened to shut the border. “Obviously, we have to help because Central American migrants pass through our […]
WASHINGTON—Huge groups of Central Americans have brought U.S. border security to its knees as an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants will overwhelm the system this month. Border Patrol agents arrested 3,974 illegal aliens along the southwest border on March 19 alone. Detention facilities are bursting at the seams, and even local NGOs are struggling to handle […]
EAGLE PASS, Texas—The little border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, is the latest to be faced with the migrant caravan phenomenon. Its neighbors to the east, in the state’s Rio Grande Valley, have become well-versed in so-called caravans—they get a caravan’s worth of asylum-seekers crossing illegally every day. But Eagle Pass, with a population of […]
One of the reported organizers of the latest migrant caravan that left Honduras for the United States on Jan. 15, Juan Carlos Molina, was recently arrested for child rape. Last week, the Honduran paper La Tribuna reported that police had arrested the 26-year-old at a bus station in San Pedro Sula, from where the first members of […]
Some Central Americans who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the migrant caravan have decided to head home. There is also the possibility that some of the migrants will remain in Mexico. “A decrease asylum requests reflects on the fact that people have realized the difficulty of this trip and they have also […]
TIJUANA, Mexico—More than 300 Tijuana residents took to the streets on Nov. 18, in a rowdy protest against the migrant caravan—which they say forced its way into their country and is demanding to be looked after, even complaining about the food. Magdalena Baltazar, 40, held a sign saying “Mexicans love beans” after hearing that the […]
QUERETARO, Mexico—Hundreds of Central American migrants resumed their march north through Mexico en route to the U.S. border. The caravan, made up mostly of Hondurans, started north again on the morning of Nov. 10 following a rest of four days in Mexico City. They carried backpacks, blankets, food, many with children in tow, and took […]
