By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF New reports have revealed that a lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel has assumed partial control of the trafficking of migrants from countries like Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba into Mexico and up toward the United States, charging $22,000 per person moved from South and Central America up to the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged lieutenant, only
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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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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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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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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is set to visit Mexico next week to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 4, to discuss the current migration crisis. “Next Monday the president of Guatemala will arrive in Mexico,” AMLO announced during his daily press conference on Tuesday, April 27. “I have information
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XINHUA Hundreds of migrants who had been stranded in Honduras, including at least 500 Haitians, have set out on their way to the United States, local authorities said Saturday, April 24. “They already left. (The) Immigration (authorities) helped them,” Dinora Sandoval, deputy mayor of the Trojes community on the border with Nicaragua, said. More than a week ago, about 2,000
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is slated to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a virtual conference on Friday, May 7. The main topic of conversation during that meeting will be the growing migration crisis, which has led to a flood of undocumented migrants — including many unaccompanied minors — crossing
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Sunday, April 18, that he will be proposing a new agreement between Central and North American countries over the migration crisis. AMLO said he’d be presenting his proposal at the virtual U.S. Climate Summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, which is set to be held on Thursday,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The real root of the surging migrant problem along the U.S.-Mexico border is unscrupulous employers who are exploiting both lax immigration laws and undocumented workers, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau said late last week. No one is holding American employers to account for their willingness to hire millions of unauthorized immigrants,” Landau said in an
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