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Struggling with US asylum app, migrant families split at border

Dozens of migrant families are splitting up at Mexico's northern border as they struggle to secure U.S. asylum appointments on a government app beset by high demand and persistent glitches, migrants and advocates say.

Reuters · Feb 27, 2023

'Listen to people on this side,' migrants in Mexico say as Biden visits border

Venezuelan migrant Julio Marquez sells lollipops near the border in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, holding a cardboard sign scrawled with marker: "Help us with whatever comes from your heart."

Reuters · Jan 8, 2023

Biden visits U.S.-Mexico border as immigration issue heats up

President Joe Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, tackling one of the most politically charged issues in the country as he prepares for a re-election bid.

Reuters · Jan 8, 2023

Mexico prison break near US border leaves 17 dead, gang leader on run

A prison break in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez left 17 people dead and allowed 25 inmates to escape in a revival of the penitentiary-system violence that paralyzed the U.S. bordering city last year.

Tribune News Service · Jan 2, 2023

Gang leader freed in Mexico prison attack that killed 17

Mexican authorities have raised the death toll from an attack on a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas to 17

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2023

At least 14 dead in armed attack on prison in Mexican border city Juarez

Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city.

Reuters · Jan 2, 2023

14 killed in attack on Mexican border prison

Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas

The Independent UK · Jan 1, 2023

Asylum seekers are gathering at the US-Mexico border. This is why

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The first time Mari Marin Bastidas tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border, she was turned away by authorities who said a policy instituted to slow the spread of COVID-19 meant her case would not even get a hearing.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 25, 2022

'We're waiting': Migrants throng U.S.-Mexico border in asylum limbo

Hundreds of migrants bundled in coats and blankets formed a long line in cold winter air at the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday, hoping the Christmas period will bring an end to uncertainty over their hopes of securing asylum in the United States.

Reuters · Dec 22, 2022

Frustration among migrants at U.S.-Mexico border as COVID restrictions remain

When Vladimir Castellanos learned that COVID-19 restrictions blocking him and other migrants from claiming asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico may not be terminated this week, he said he felt deceived.

Reuters · Dec 20, 2022