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Migrant Border Deaths Surge with Increased Enforcement and Militarization, Expert Says On 5/4/21 at 8:51 AM EDT In southern Arizonas Sonoran Desert, where temperatures can get as high as 125, the Tucson-based nonprofit No More Deaths operates a humanitarian aid camp for migrants making their way north through the barren, sun-bleached landscape. At a minimum, almost everyone who comes to the camp suffers from exposure and dehydration, Sammy Rovner, a volunteer with the agencys media team, said. ...

Desperate Migrants Ride Freight Train Roofs in Perilous Attempts to Cross Border On 4/29/21 at 6:10 PM EDT Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a report on Monday that showed illegal border crossings attempted by jumping freight trains increased by more than 60% since the beginning of the current fiscal year. In all of 2020, there were 181 illegal train crossing encounters. In not quite four months of 2021, there have been 292. It is an incredibly perilous journey for the migrants. The ...

A bill to establish the Nigerian Institute of Border Studies sponsored by Senator Tolulope Odebiyi went through public hearing on Monday. In his address,

Coronavirus threatens to permanently change a way of life at the border The partial shutdown of the border has many Mexicans unable to do their usual business in the U.S., and some fear shopping and other patterns may be changed forever. Fewer shoppers are on the street in the shopping district just across from El Paso in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, seen here in early April.(Alfredo Corchado) 3:36 PM on Apr 12, 2021 CDT Consider Samantha Camacho, a U.S. citizen, University of Texas at El Paso studen...

4:25 New Mexico State University’s Center for Latin American and Border Studies held a virtual panel to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S.- Mexico Border. One challenge involves trade. Travis Leyva is the Director of the New Mexico Office of Border Health. “One thing to note that has been very challenging over the last year is our two major port of entries. One in Santa Teresa, which is a very high commercial port of entry for Mexico and the U.S, and also Columbus, which we do also...

Lawmakers are seeking common ground on DACA, but comprehensive immigration reform will be a challenge for Democrats Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  “For the past four years, the DACA program has been under attack, so it’s been a lot of stress and trauma for me. ... But I’m still hopeful,” says Juan Paul Flores Vazquez, who lives in El Paso. Credit: Christ Chavez for The Texas Tribune EL PASO — When Juan Paul Flores Vazquez was about 4 years old, he crossed the U.S....

Q uick Take: The Biden administration has made no changes to COVID-19 testing policies for either U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol. But a claim circulating online falsely suggests that the administration has stopped testing detained immigrants before they are released. Full Story: A Texas sheriff told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Feb. 9, “it’s absolutely true” that immigrants detained after crossing the border have been released into the U....

Quick Take The Biden administration has made no changes to COVID-19 testing policies for either U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol. But a claim circulating online falsely suggests that the administration has stopped testing detained immigrants before they are released. Full Story A Texas sheriff toldFoxNews host Tucker Carlson on Feb. 9, “it’s absolutely true” that immigrants detained after crossing the border have been released into the U.S. without bei...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will virtually meet with officials in Mexico and Canada in his first trip "abroad" Friday, raising questions about when the three countries will reopen borders restricted under coronavirus restrictions nearly a year ago.

Families and small businesses impacted The border restrictions have been devastating for binational communities, dividing families whose lives bridge an international border and hurting businesses dependent on the cross-border traffic. The Trump administration billed the restrictions, which took effect at midnight March 21, 2020, as a ban on “non-essential” travel to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In practice,  it effectively prevented Mexican nationals holding tourist visas from crossing...