Photo: Black migrants, frustrated with the immigration process and the ongoing discrimination they say they experience, clash with the Mexican national guard. (Photo by Drake Presto/Cronkite Borderlands Project) The wide street leading to the Instituto Nacional de Migración is lined with bright and bold murals affirming the human rights of all people without regard to
Photo: A migrant heads back to Mexico after being stopped by Border Patrol near Sasabe in March 2020 Advocates waiting for the Biden administration to end the “remain in Mexico” immigration policy could be waiting weeks, or more, despite the Supreme Court ruling last month that the administration has the authority to do so. Homeland
The crisis at the Southwest border has been largely forgotten. It’s getting worse, though, as disclosures reveal President Biden has allowed nearly 1.05 million migrants — more people than live in the president’s home state of Delaware — encountered at the Southwest border into the United States. Add in the “got aways”— migrants who successfully evaded Border Patrol —
Photo: Yobel Ruiz and his daughter, Milaidy, 5, wait outside an immigration office in Tapachula on March 8, 2022. The pair fled their home in Panama’s Darién Province the month before, after guerrillas kidnapped Ruiz’s wife. Ruiz hopes to be granted asylum and move to Florida where his cousin lives. He still does not know
When a woman gashed her leg in mountains inhabited by snakes and scorpions, she told Joel Úbeda to take her 5-year-old daughter. Úbeda refused to let the mother die, despite the advice of their smuggler and another migrant in a group of seven, and helped carry her to safety by shining a mirror in sunlight
The on-again, off-again fight to end the Trump-era “remain in Mexico” policy is on again, after the Supreme Court said it will review lower court rulings that have forced the Biden administration to keep the program in place. The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the Biden administration’s appeal of the policy, which forces migrants to wait