By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in California launched tear gas on a group of about 150 migrants who were trying to illegally force their way across the border from Tijuana, Mexico, in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Tuesday, Jan. 1. CBP officials later stated that the tear gas was targeted
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While newly inaugurated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was busy celebrating his elaborate and elongated, multi-sited inaugural ceremony, entertaining more than 20 foreign heads of state – including the likes of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (a shining pillar of Latin American democracy, justice and respect for human rights, at its very best), Bolivian President Evo
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The sports complex in Tijuana, Baja California, which is temporarily housing the majority of mostly Central American migrants awaiting asylum in the United States, has reached a crisis level in terms of hygiene and sanitation, according to workers from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who are currently monitoring the situation.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly six hours after having been closed to all vehicle and foot traffic, the San Ysidro border crossing between Tijuana, Baja California, and San Diego, California, was reopened in the late afternoon on Sunday, Nov. 25. The border was closed by U.S. Customs authorities after a mob of roughly 500 mostly Central American migrants
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After about 500 mostly Central American migrants rushed the border near Tijuana, Baja California, in the late afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 24, U.S. authorities responded with a dispersal of tear gas the closing of the main point of entry into California, blocking off the major port of entry into San Ysidro, California, on Sunday afternoon
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By THE PULSE NEW MEXICO STAFF Conflicting reports as to whether the incoming administration of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has made a closed-door deal with the government of U.S President Donald Trump that would require the growing throngs of Central American asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border to remain in Mexico while their cases are reviewed continue to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Police in Mexico’s northwestern state of Baja California on Friday, Oct. 12, reported the apparent murder of a Roman Catholic priest in the border town of Playas de Rosarito, just outside Tijuana. The alleged homicide of Ícmar Arturo Orta was reported to authorities on Sunday, Oct. 14, by Tijuana Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barron. Orta
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