YOU WONT BELIEVE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Texas has seen a decrease in migrant encounters; is its anti-immigration effort working?

Operation Lone Star was launched in 2021 to counter border crossings. Are their efforts working now? The answer is complicated.

Latin Times · Apr 22, 2024

Migrant apprehensions are down at the Texas border. Have state policies had an impact?

Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border.

The Texas Tribune · Apr 22, 2024

Panama’s presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap

In announcement three weeks before election, former president Ricardo Martinelli made claim without saying how he would do it

The Guardian - US · Apr 18, 2024

In a border graveyard, volunteers exhume migrants’ bodies and search for their families

In Maverick County, 26 bodies pulled from the Rio Grande were buried, some without attempts to identify them. Teams of Texas State students are trying to learn their names so their families can be notified.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 24, 2023

Border chief says GOP governors’ migrant relocation campaign is stoking migration to US

WASHINGTON — A few days after Daniel got off a plane in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachuseetts, where he had been flown from San Antonio with other migrants by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his phone buzzed.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 6, 2022

Most migrants crossing into the US are now from remote countries

Undocumented crossings at the U.S. southern border have long been dominated by people from Mexico and Central America — but for the first time since at least the turn of the century, migrants from other nations made up the majority of those stopped by authorities.

Tribune News Service · Sep 27, 2022

Border arrests on track to break record as divide grows over states’ handling of migrants

DALLAS — Complications for the Biden administration over immigration intensified as migrants were transported by Republican governors to cities governed by Democrats and rising migration along the southern border remains on pace to exceed a record 2 million.

Tribune News Service · Sep 17, 2022

Visa rules in Mexico don't stop Venezuelans headed to US

When Mexico imposed a visa requirement on Venezuelans in January, it briefly had the desired effect of plunging numbers of Venezuelans detained at the U.S.-Mexico border

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2022

North Texas migrant sees awful irony — his success is why others die to reach US

DALLAS — Carlos Joaquin Salinas is finally becoming the person he dreamt he’d be. Someone respected. Someone his mother is proud of.

Tribune News Service · Jul 17, 2022

Afro-Colombian politician tapped as ambassador to Washington

A veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled his country after being kidnapped by a paramilitary group has been named Colombia’s next ambassador to the United States

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022