The round-faced woman from La Ceiba, Honduras, and her 5- and 12-year-old sons arrived in this city across the border from Laredo, Texas, where she had been promised a job and hoped to build a new life. Instead they were ...

Tagged with: asylum border Honduras immigrants migrants policy Trump

Reversing decades of U.S. policy, the Trump administration said this week it will end all asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border — the president’s most forceful attempt yet to block asylum claims and slash the ...

Tagged with: asylum immigration Mexico migrants Trump US

President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies are inflicting lifetime damage on children separated from their families and worsening conditions at overcrowded and unsanitary detention facilities at the border, a Democratic House chairman said Friday as his panel held a hearing ...

Tagged with: Democratic House immigration migrants President Donald Trump Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rep. Andy Biggs Rep. Elijah Cummings Republicans U.S.-Mexico border

President Donald Trump’s administration is evaluating vacant properties near five U.S. cities as potential permanent sites to hold hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Sites are being assessed in and around Atlanta; Phoenix; Dallas; Houston; and ...

Tagged with: child immigrants detention centers migrants President Donald Trump

From the steps of his church in this Guatemalan border town, the Rev. Fernando Cuevas has watched the flow of migrants evolve from massive caravans that filled the nearby plaza to small groups of families arriving by bus to scramble ...

Tagged with: Central America El Salvador Guatemala Honduras immigration Mexico migrants Rev. Fernando Cuevas Tecun Uman

U.S. Border Patrol agents are under fire for posting offensive messages in a “secret” Facebook group that included sexually explicit posts about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dismissive references to the deaths of migrants in U.S. custody. The existence of ...

Tagged with: Custody Facebook group migrants ProPublica U.S. Border Patrol U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

For almost two weeks, a 12-year-old migrant girl said she and her 6-year-old sister were held inside a Border Patrol station in Texas where they slept on the floor and some children were locked away when they cried for their ...

Tagged with: Border Patrol El Paso immigrants migrants Texas U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Julia Pérez makes a living selling pupusas, traditional Salvadoran stuffed pastries, to residents of the Altavista neighborhood who rise before dawn and rush to buses bound for their jobs in the capital about 12 miles away. One of her regulars ...

Tagged with: drowning El Salvador immigration migrants

At night, the teenage girl from Honduras wraps a thin foil blanket around herself and her infant son as they lie on a floor mat in the cold. The lights are glaring and sleepless children are crying. It’s so crowded ...

Tagged with: border conditions detention immigrants migrants wall

The young family from El Salvador appeared in this border city over the weekend with fear already on their faces. They went to the downtown bridge that leads to Brownsville, Texas, where Xiomara Mejia, herself also a migrant from Central ...

Tagged with: border wall El Salvador immigrants migrants Texas

Authorities reinforced efforts over the weekend to deter Central Americans and others from crossing Mexico to reach the United States, detaining migrants in the south and stationing National Guardsmen along the Rio Grande in the north. In Arriaga, a town ...

Tagged with: Arriaga Chiapas Ciudad detention El Paso immigrants Mexico migrants Milenio National Guardsmen Rio Grande