A total of 200,163 Venezuelans abroad have registered on the web portal created by anti-Chavismo so that migrants update your data and can vote in the elections opposition parties on October 22, in which a candidate will be elected to face the ruling party in the 2024 presidential elections, the National Primary Commission (CNP) reported […]
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Emigrating, “the only option” for many Latin Americans, warns the head of the WFP
Emigrate is “the only option” of many Latin Americans, confronted with the crises of climate changehe covid and the skyrocketing of prices, stated the person in charge of the region of World Food Program (WFP) in an interview with AFP. “It is a hemispheric migration”according to the director for Latin America and the Caribbean of […]
From cleaning lettuce in the field to fighting child labor in Washington DC
At just 11 years old, Jacqueline Aguilar would get up before four in the morning to go to the fields to clean lettuce in a small town in Colorado. More than nine hours of work in the sun awaited her with only thirty minutes to eat. Now 20 years old, Jacqueline has managed to leave […]
Anonymous graves, the end of some migrants at the US border
The Eagle Pass Border Cemetery, with its statues and flower arrangements, looks like any other at first glance. But in the background, some 40 improvised crosses with PVC pipes reveal the tragedy in South Texas, where the American dream of many migrants ends in anonymous graves. In a sea of tombstones with Hispanic names, the […]
US suspends border crossing appointments for asylum seekers after extortions
The US government has stopped accepting app appointments to admit asylum seekers at a Texas border crossing that connects to a notoriously dangerous Mexican city, after activists warned US authorities that migrants were being targeted for extortion there. . The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not provide any explanation for its decision […]
Miskito migrants cling to their culture while waiting in Mexico to go to the US.
Hundreds of migrants of the Miskito ethnic group, from the indigenous region of Honduras, live in various shelters in the border city of Tijuana, north of Mexicoand despite being so far from their country they maintain their uses and customs and protect their mother tongue while they wait to cross into USA. These migrants stay […]
Seeking asylum and employment, migrants relocated from New York encounter hostility
Before leaving Mauritania, the West African nation where he was born, Mohamed thought about NY as a place that would receive him with the “open arms”a refuge for migrants They were fleeing dire circumstances. Now that he’s here, seeking political asylum from a government that feared he would be killed, he doesn’t feel welcome. At […]
US-Mexico border looks relatively calm after end of Title 42
The US-Mexico border was relatively quiet on Friday, offering little sign of the chaos feared after a surge of migrants eager to cross into the US before the end of coronavirus-related immigration restrictions. Less than 24 hours after the rules known as Title 42 were lifted, migrants and US authorities were still evaluating the effect […]
With this campaign, the US seeks to deter refugees from crossing its border
USA has just launched an advertising campaign to persuade Latin American migrants fleeing their countries not to enter the United States, while the presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) patrols becomes more visible in border towns like El Paso. “Don’t listen to what smugglers say: learn about the US immigration system”, assures a message […]
This is ‘The Beast’ leading thousands of desperate migrants to the US-Mexico border.
Thousands of migrants are forced to take the dangerous routes traveling aboard cargo trains to advance towards the north of Mexico, in a race against time to reach the border with the United States before the end of a harsh immigration policy that prevented them from ask for asylum In recent weeks, groups of hundreds […]