Kamala Harris announces $2 billion Central America investment amid migration crisis

Private-sector corporations will invest $2 billion into northern Central America under a Biden administration initiative meant to improve economic conditions in the region amid mass migration to Mexico and the United States. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tuesday morning that … Read More

Why Biden’s plan to slow migration through international aid is unlikely to succeed

Like the United States, most developed countries are shifting away from respecting refugees’ rights at the border to trying to prevent migration in the first place President Biden tackled immigration in his first 100 days by rescinding the “Muslim” travel bans; halted … Read More

Iota death toll in Nicaragua rises as rescuers search for survivors

The death toll from Hurricane Iota continues to rise after the storm hammered a part of Central America that was recently battered by Hurricane Eta. Iota left a trail of devastation in its wake as it tore across parts of Nicaragua and Honduras earlier … Read More

Biden has immigrants, advocates hoping for reversal of Trump’s border policies

“I want Trump out … it would make things easier,” one Honduran woman said, according to a report. Immigration advocates and even some Central Americans mulling entering the U.S. are reportedly rooting hard for a Joe Biden victory in November, encouraged by … Read More

As World Comes to Halt Amid Pandemic, So Do Migrants

Laborers have not just stopped traveling in search of work. Many have also headed back to their home countries. Migrants at a bridge on the Mexico-United States border wait to reschedule their immigration hearings.Credit…Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters MEXICO CITY — A … Read More

Mexico Breaks Up a Migrant Caravan, Pleasing White House

The Mexican authorities used pepper spray on a caravan of 4,000 Central American migrants who tried to enter the country illegally and dangled the possibility of jobs for those who registered. MEXICO CITY — For generations, Mexico served as a … Read More

Central America Encourages Migrants to Leave—And Then Rakes in U.S. Dollars

The three Northern Triangle nations have done little to provide for the poor. Central American refugees ride a cargo truck in Mexico. Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are, by all accounts, countries ravaged by gang violence, drug trafficking and … Read More

1,036 migrants, with 63 unaccompanied children, become largest single group ever taken into custody at southern border

A caravan-sized group of more than 1,000 people was taken into federal custody in western Texas Wednesday after illegally crossing from Mexico into the United States, a senior Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner. Agents encountered 1,036 people, primarily from … Read More

US, Mexico reach deal to stop Honduran caravan at Mexico’s southern border

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The U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement aimed at keeping the 4,000-person migrant caravan from reaching America. The plan was developed over many months and included a request from Mexico that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees establish … Read More