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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XINHUA Hundreds of Hondurans, who were part of a migrant caravan headed north to the U.S. border, began returning home after the group met with resistance from authorities and fell apart in Guatemala, the Honduran government said on Tuesday, Jan. 19. The caravan disintegrated on Sunday, Jan. 17, when authorities in Vado Hondo, in the eastern Guatemalan region of Chiquimula,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccines Politicized Ever since the Mexican government announcement on Friday, Jan. 15, that “the last batch” of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines — 219,375 vaccine units, to be exact, half the expected number of doses, would arrive in the country Tuesday, Jan. 19, the topic became a focus of a raging political debate. But at the root of that
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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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XINHUA The covid-19 pandemic may have slowed international migration flows by around 2 million people last year, cutting the annual growth expected since mid-2019 by around 27 percent, according to a report by the United Nations released Friday, Jan. 15. International Migration 2020 Highlights, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), shows that since the year
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XINHUA Mexico will work to ensure migrants in the United States are given equal access to covid-19 vaccines by citing labor provisions in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday, Jan. 13. The free trade agreement, in force since July 2020, includes provisions that guarantee health protections for migrants in member countries, regardless
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XINHUA Mexican migrants to the United States have been treating covid-19 infections using home remedies due to lack of access to health services, according to a recent analysis from Mexico’s Interior Secretariat (SeGob). Published by SeGob’s Immigration Policy Unit in mid-September, the report said that the pandemic has caused greater complications such as job loss and restrictive government policies. It
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XINHUA Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration (INM) said Wednesday, Aug. 5, that it has recovered 51 bodies of foreign migrants from the country’s northern border with the United States since 2019. According to the INM, members of its Beta Group special task force recovered the bodies from desert terrain and the Rio Grande River that separates the two countries, which
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Not surprisingly, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed what he calls a pause to immigration to the United States for 60 days while the country battles with the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus. This announcement has spurred massive controversy both in the United States and abroad, particularly in Mexico. But it is important to understand that
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XINHUA U.S. President Donald J. Trump said late Monday, April 20, that he would sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States. The decision was made in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and “the need to protect the jobs” of Americans, Trump tweeted. It was not immediately clear when the suspension would go into effect or
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