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AMLO, Ebrard Respond to Trump’s Claims of Influence

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By KELIN DILLON After an unexpected friendship blossomed between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and former U.S. President Donald Trump during the leaders’ administrative overlap as a bond over baseball brought the ideologically opposed self-professed socialist and staunch Republican conservative together, Trump’s post-administration speaking engagements have brought fresh commentary on his perspective of the relationship between the two

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US-Mexico Border Reopens for Nonessential Travel

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By VAYUNAMU BAWA After more than 19 grueling months of limited interchange along the U.S.-Mexico border, tourists and other nonessential travelers from Mexico will for the first time since March 2020 be allowed to cross into the United States starting on Monday, Nov. 8. But there are caveats. All persons 18 and over must present proof of full covid-19 vaccinations

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US Border Detentions Hit Record High, New Caravan Forming

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Detentions of undocumented migrants entering the United States from Mexico ¿reached a record high of 1.7 million this fiscal year, which ended in September, U.S. border authorities said Wednesday, Oct. 20. The unprecedented surge of illegal migrants has created political riffs and humanitarian challenges for the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, who reversed

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US-Mexico Border to Open to Vaccinated People Nov 8

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By KELIN DILLON After 19 months, the land border between the United States and Mexico will open for non-essential travel on Monday, Nov. 8, to people fully inoculated against covid-19 with vaccines approved by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO). Travelers from Mexico will be able to enter the United States without presenting

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US Closes Del Rio Border Passage, Sends Haitians Home

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Faced with a surging flood of undocumented migrants, mostly from Haiti, at the Del Rio, Texas, border, the U.S. government on Sunday, Sept. 19, closed off the Mexican border in that city indefinitely and began flying some of the illegal immigrants back to their homeland. Yellow tape and government vehicles blocked the path of

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Migrant Caravan Arrives in Chiapas, Halted by Immigration

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By KELIN DILLON On Sunday, Sept. 5, hundreds of migrants from Central American countries flowed into the Mexican town of Tapachula, Chiapas, from the nearby Guatemalan border, with the aim of either waiting there on the status of their asylum applications or immediately proceeding further north to the United States. This is the fourth major caravan to enter from Tapachula

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Migrants Denounce AMLO’s Claims of Responsibility for Remittances

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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has claimed credit for the record number of remittances flowing into Mexico, representatives of the National Front of Immigrants have criticized the executive for his words, laying blame on AMLO for making Mexico an unattractive place to work. More than $4.54 billion was sent to Mexico from workers in

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Texas Judge Reinstates Trump’s Stay in Mexico Policy

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By KELIN DILLON On Friday, Aug. 13, Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy, which requires those seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico for their court hearings. The 2019 law was previously given a memorandum by National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this past June, until Kacsmaryk

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Criminals Profit from Kidnapping and Extorting Migrants at Border

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By KELIN DILLON As the flow of migrants to the border of the United States and Mexico has continued, criminal groups have seized the opportunity to exploit this already-marginalized group, extorting and kidnapping them as a new facet of their illicit enterprise. Rather than just charging exorbitant fees to traffic migrants through the border, these groups have begun holding them

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