By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 179,000 undocumented migrants were encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border in April, the highest one-month total in more than two decades, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday, May 11, although they said that there were fewer unaccompanied children. According to Customs and Border Protection figures, 17,171 unaccompanied migrant children were found in
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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named his country’s former ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, to oversee bilateral border relations with Mexico. The nomination of Jacobson by Biden, who is due to take office today, Jan. 20, was confirmed Monday, Jan. 18, by the incoming president’s chief adviser for Latin America, Juan Sebastián González. “I
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Along the Rio Grande River in Texas, the covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic slowdown are major concerns, but not nearly as worrying for local farmers as the impending water crisis. The Rio Grande farmers produce nearly $500 million in foodstuffs each year, making the Rio Grande Valley (technically, it is not a valley, but a sprawling
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA Restrictions on nonessential land traffic along the border between Mexico and the United States will be extended until Sept. 21 due to the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced on Friday, Aug. 14. According to the secretariat, Mexico proposed the extension of the partial closure of the border for another month after reviewing the
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XINHUA Mexico and the United States have agreed to extend a ban on nonessential cross-border travel by land until July 21, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said Tuesday, June 17. The decision to extend the ban, which began on March 21, by another 30 days followed an assessment of the outbreaks that are developing
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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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