Tag Archives: Ciudad Acuna

Haitian Migrant Crisis Shows Need for Regional Scheme

XINHUA The surge of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the need for a continentwide legal framework to protect migrant rights, Mexican immigration experts said Monday. Sept. 27. At a seminar on the current Haitian migrant crisis, Alberto Hernandez, president of Mexico’s College of the Northern Border (Colef), which hosted the event, said designing and applying such a continentwide

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Migration Institute Seemingly Doing Nothing for Haitians

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Amid the arrival of an estimated 6,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants to the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, mostly returned from the U.S. border after not having been granted asylum in that country, Casa Indi, the main shelter for these migrants in the state, warned Monday, Sept. 27, that the humanitarian situation is worsening

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US Closes Del Rio Border Passage, Sends Haitians Home

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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