Us-mexico Border

US, Mexico reveal plan to halt migration from Central America

Dubbed "Planting Opportunities," the project brings together development agencies from both sides and targets the so-called Northern Triangle countries consisting of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

Mexico urges Haitians on Texas border to head south as US camp shrinks

Hundreds of migrants, who attempted to enter the United States, retreated to Mexico after US began sending planes of people back to Haiti and officials on horseback used reins as whips against asylum seekers trying to crossover.

After criticism, Biden says he will raise US cap on refugee admissions

President Joe Biden plans to lift his predecessor’s historically low cap on refugees by next month, after initially moving only to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements and getting swift blowback from allies in return.

Biden issues executive orders to undo several Trump policies

Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden has signed a series of executive orders to keep the US in the WHO, end the entry ban from mostly Muslim-majority countries, bolster environmental protections and strengthen the fight against Covid-19.

US judge says asylum seekers cannot be denied bond hearings

District Judge Marsha Pechman ruled people who are detained after entering the US to seek protection are entitled to bond hearings. Attorney General William Barr's policy for indefinite detention was due to take effect on July 15.

US Congress approves $4.6B in emergency border funding

Funding hoped to ease a swelling migrant crisis on the nation's southern border following outrage over a shocking photograph of a Salvadoran man and his daughter drowned in river Rio Grande.

Images of drowned two-year old migrant girl and father stir outrage

Twenty-five-year-old Salvadorian Oscar Martinez Ramirez fled El Salvador with his 21-year-old wife and their daughter and decided to make the risky crossing from Mexico to the US on Sunday afternoon, according to a Mexican court report.

Trump signs first veto to secure funding for border wall

US president's veto comes after he suffered an embarrassing defeat when senators, including fellow Republicans, voted to terminate his declaration of an emergency on the Mexican border.

16 US states sue Trump in wall funds row

Led by California, the joint lawsuit comes just days after the US president invoked emergency powers as Congress declined to fulfill his request for $5.7 billion to help build Trump's wall on the Mexico border.

US fires tear gas to deter migrants making New Year's run at border

US Customs and Border Protection said in a statement later that the gas was used to target rock throwers apart from the migrants who were trying to cross.

Migrant caravan arrive at Mexico-US border city

The first wave of migrants in the caravan, which became a central theme of the recent US election, began arriving in Tijuana in recent days, and their numbers have grown each day.

At least 700 separated children still in US custody after deadline

Hundreds of families separated at the US-Mexico border in limbo as US officials struggle to meet a court-set deadline for family reunification that expired on Thursday.