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US, Mexico conduct security exercises near border

CIUDAD JUáREZ (MEXICO) - US and Mexican armed forces performed security exercises Thursday along the border near the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

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Former Mexico immigration chief apologizes for deadly detention center fire

The former head of Mexico’s immigration agency has apologized to victims and families affected by a fire at a Ciudad Juarez detention center that killed 40 migrants

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Mexican families losing jobs in their thousands due to Trump tariffs

Mexican people are facing mass layoffs, which are being blamed on Trump’s tariffs

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More Relatives of 'El Chapo' Will Likely Reach The U.S., Former DHS Official Claims

The former director of Homeland Security Investigations in Ciudad Juarez expects more relatives of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to reach the U.S.

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Migrants Mourn Pope Who Fought For Their Rights

Latin American migrants paid tribute on Monday to Pope Francis as a staunch defender of their rights who gave them much-needed encouragement on their long and dangerous journeys fleeing poverty and violence.

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US Immigration Processing App Shutdown Leaves Migrants Stranded

Migrant Jose Cabrera's asylum appointment canceled in Ciudad Juarez, leaving him and others stranded with limited resources.

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Mexican Authorities To Seal Secret Tunnel On US Border

A clandestine tunnel discovered on the US-Mexico border allowing entry from Ciudad Juarez into the Texan city of El Paso will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official said Saturday, adding that its construction was under investigation.

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As US Election Rhetoric Heats Up, Illegal Border Crossings Fall

The banks of the Rio Grande river separating Mexico and the United States look almost deserted, and formerly overcrowded migrant shelters are half empty -- a consequence of tougher US immigration policies in an election year.

International Business Times

Giraffe Benito has a new home in Mexico. Now comes the hard part — fitting in

The 4-year-old giraffe arrived Tuesday at his new home in a large animal park in central Mexico. He was transferred following pressure from animal advocates, and after he spent the last year alone.

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Campaign to save Benito the Giraffe wins him a new, more spacious home in warmer southern Mexico

A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico’s arid border city of Ciudad Juarez has finally paid off, with officials promising to move him to a more spacious animal park 1,250 miles to the south

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Activists work to get giraffe removed from small enclosure in dusty Mexican border city

Benito the giraffe arrived in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez just last month, and already the climate appears to be a problem — and he’s only had to deal with the scorching heat of summer

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Migrant crossings drop at U.S.-Mexico border after Title 42 expires

Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have unexpectedly fallen, not risen, since Title 42 curbs expired and reinstating criminal penalties for illegal entry is likely the biggest reason, the Biden administration said on Sunday.

Reuters

With barbed wire and warnings, migrants stopped at US-Mexico border

After hours of waiting on the U.S. side of the border and hoping the Texas National Guard would let them seek U.S. asylum, a group of 15 migrants crossed a shallow green river back to Mexico, their faces drawn in disappointment.

Reuters

‘What now?’: Scenes from the US-Mexico border

US is seeing an influx of migrants at its southern border with Mexico as pandemic-era policy came to an end this week.

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Migrants risk life and limb to jump Mexico trains in rush to border

Thousands of migrants in Mexico have been clambering onto dangerous freight trains rumbling northward in a scramble to reach the U.S. border by the time the United States ends a tough migration policy later this week.

Reuters

Head of Mexican migration authority charged over deadly Juarez fire

A judge in northern Mexico has ordered the head of the national migration authority charged over a fire late last month that killed 40 migrants at a holding center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said on Sunday.

Reuters

New migrant caravan heads for Mexico City to speed up legal route to US

Thousands of migrants, detained for months in southern Mexico, formed a new caravan in protest on Sunday to head for the capital to speed up their applications for U.S. asylum.

Reuters

Prosecutors probe Mexico immigration chief over fire that killed 40 migrants

The head of Mexico's immigration agency, Francisco Garduno, is under investigation over a deadly fire last month at a migrant detention center in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.

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Tragedies, not accidents: Tougher Canadian and U.S. border policies will cost more lives

A fire recently broke out at a detention centre in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-United States border. The blaze killed 38 men and injured another 29 from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. All of them had been detained because they had crossed borders to seek protection and…

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Missing key to cell sealed fate of migrants in Mexico fire, president says

The 40 migrants who died in a fire at a detention center in Mexico last month were unable to escape because the person with the key to their locked cell was absent, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Survivor of Mexico detention fire and his family cross into U.S.

After her husband survived a fire which killed dozens of migrants at a detention center in northern Mexico, Venezuelan Viangly Infante crossed into the United States on Saturday, in search of new opportunities for her three children.

The Independent UK

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

Tensions have simmered between migrants and residents in Mexican border cities for years, with camps set up near crossings by those who can’t afford housing or who cling to hopes the U.S. will suddenly admit them

The Conversation

Migrant deaths in Mexico put spotlight on US policy that shifted immigration enforcement south

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Mexico president assigns blame elsewhere for migrant tragedy

Mexico's president visiting hospitals treating injured migrants in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where 39 men died in a immigration detention center fire

Reuters

Mexican migration officer absent as deadly fire began in cell he supervised, guard says

The migration officer supervising the men's unit of a Mexican migrant detention center where a fire claimed 39 lives had left the building shortly before the incident, a private security guard said in an interview with Reuters.

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