XINHUA Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the weekend urged the U.S. federal government to take action to end the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. During a press conference in Weslaco near the U.S.-Mexico border, the governor called on U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to take “immediate action” to end the humanitarian crisis. “Operation Lone Star
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The Dallas Morning News once supported Republicans, like Governor Mitt Romney in 2002, and, of course, President George W. Bush, President George Bush and President Ronald Reagan. But in 2016, it went for Hillary Clinton, and then in 2018 for Beto O’Rourke. On Wednesday, March 24, its editorial page addressed the border issue this way: “President
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XINHUA U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, March 25, that he had picked Vice President Kamala Harris as the point person in the country’s diplomatic efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries in Central America to stem migration at the southern border. Biden made the announcement at the White House, saying of Harris that nobody “is better qualified to
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA There are growing concerns over the detection of three new variants of covid-19 in 20 countries in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Wednesday, Feb. 3. These variants “are raising questions about a possible increase” in the transmissibility of the virus, said Carissa F. Etienne, the director of PAHO. During a virtual press conference, Etienne asked
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. On Saturday, Jan. 23, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke by phone. According to news reports, the Mexican president said that the United Stats has pledged $4 billion to Central America. in development investment programs. I guess that Biden is hoping that money going south will keep caravans from going
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 9,000 Hondurans refugees headed to the U.S. border were blocked by Guatemalan soldiers on Saturday, Jan. 16, not far from where they entered the country illegally. The migrants crossed into Guatemala in a caravan that had — in the course of just 24 hours, swelled from 3,000 to triple that size — in the hopes
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ebrard and Sullivan Talk Migration A new era in Mexican-U.S. diplomatic relations began Wednesday, Jan. 6, with a video conference between Foreign Relations Secretary (SRE) Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón and President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security spokesman, Jake Sullivan. Both agreed that the most important issue in a new bilateral agenda is to collaborate in order to have a
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