Mexico crackdown keeps migrants off trains known as 'La Bestia'
Around midnight, armed with flashlights, Mexican immigration agents halted "La Bestia" — the Beast. "Come down!" "Come over here!" they shouted at the migrants clinging to the top and sides of the...
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A Central American migrant practices scaling parked boxcars last month as he awaits the arrival of a northbound freight train in Arriaga, Mexico. The number of unaccompanied minors detained on the U.S....
View ArticleMexico stops migrants from climbing 'Beast' train
Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico) (AFP) - Mexican authorities have launched operations to block Central American migrants from illegally heading to the United States, stopping them from hitching rides on a...
View ArticleMigrants try to skirt Mexico crackdown
Arriaga (Mexico) (AFP) - The Salvadoran migrant was trying to skirt new police patrols in southern Mexico when a band of criminals shot him in the neck. With Mexico cracking down on a tide of illegal...
View ArticleMexico operations thwart child‚ family migrants
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View ArticleCentral American minors pushed north by poverty, violence and hopes for refuge
ARRIAGA, MEXICO — As night falls, Samuel Carcamo stands on the tracks with dozens of other migrants waiting to climb on top of the northbound freight known as the Train of Death. A native of El...
View ArticleChild migrant crisis endures on Mexico's south border
Palenque (Mexico) (AFP) - His face lit up every time he mentioned his destination -- the United States -- but like many Central American children, Juan's dream ended abruptly when Mexican officers...
View ArticleDeportations in Mexico up 79% in first four months of 2015
After the US asked Mexico to staunch the flow of migrants headed to America, there’s been a sharp increase in the number of Central Americans deported ...
View ArticleMore Central Americans risk perilous trek to US to flee poverty and violence
Villages are emptying as more children and women migrate illegally to America amid confusion over whether they can stay ...
View ArticleMexico operations thwart child, family migrants
Share PhotoReddit✉ In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, Central American migrants sleep atop a moving freight train as it heads north from Arriaga toward Chahuites, Mexico. A Mexican crackdown seems to be...
View ArticleUN pushes for Central American migrants to be called refugees, increasing...
Published July 08, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 FILE - In this April 13, 2014 file photo, forensic experts secure the scene after gunmen using assault weapons opened fire, killing four men...
View ArticleMexico Now Detains More Central American Migrants than the United States...
(Source: WOLA - Washington Office on Latin America) Washington, D.C.-After a 2014 "surge" of unaccompanied minor migrants from Central America that set off alarms in the United States, the government...
View ArticleMexico's new enforcement cuts off route for Central American family and child...
Published August 29, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, a handful of Central American migrants cling to a northbound freight train after jumping aboard outside...
View ArticleMexico Apprehends and Deports More Central Americans Than the United States...
(Source: NumbersUSA Action) Updated: Fri,Jun19th 2015 @ 2:47 pm EDT The Associated Press reports that Mexico apprehended 92,889 Central Americans between October 2014 and April 2015, while the United...
View ArticleMexico's deportations of Central Americans rise sharply
Reprints + - FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2014, file photo, an immigration official checks a bus for Central American migrants, at a roadblock north of Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. According to data from...
View ArticleCrime fear, rumors of refuge draw children to US
Click photo to enlarge In this Friday, June 20, 2014 photo, Central American migrants use trash bags and cardboard to protect themselves from the rain as they wait atop a stuck freight train, outside...
View ArticleChild migrants head for US to flee crime, drawn by belief they are allowed to...
Published June 25, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 In this Friday, June 20, 2014 photo, Central American migrants use trash bags and cardboard to protect themselves from the rain as they wait...
View ArticleUN pushes for migrants to be called refugees
Share PhotoReddit✉ In this June 19, 2014 photo, a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl traveling alone waits for a northbound freight train along with other Central American migrants, in Arriaga, Chiapas...
View ArticleCrime, belief they can stay drive migrants to US
Share PhotoReddit✉ In this Friday, June 20, 2014 photo, Guatemalan migrant Gladys Chinoy, 14, waits along with more than 500 other migrants, after the freight train they were traveling on suffered a...
View ArticleMexico deports more Central Americans than U.S.
Mark Stevenson and Alberto Arce, Associated Press 4:42 p.m. EDT June 18, 2015 FILE - In this June 20, 2014 file photo, Central American migrants wait atop the freight train they had been traveling...
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