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El Salvador's government has begun slapping a $1,130 fee on travelers from dozens of countries connecting through the nation's main airport, amid U.S. pressure to help control migration flows to its southern border. Since the end of October, citizens of 57 largely African countries and India have had to pay the fee, according to El Salvador’s aviation authority. Aviation officials did not say whether the measure was aimed at reducing migration and have described the tariff as an “air...

Some asylum seekers say Modi’s Hindu nationalist policies are driving them out, while others are drawn by job opportunities

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat and sending rescues soaring. In just a month, the Border Patrols Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008. Humanitarian groups are carting more water south of tiny Ajo, Arizona, where smugglers leave migrants from faraway places like India, China, Senegal and Maur...

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat and sending rescues soaring. In just a month, the Border Patrols Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008. Humanitarian groups are carting more water south of tiny Ajo, Arizona, where smugglers leave migrants from faraway places like India, China, Senegal and Maur...

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat and sending rescues soaring. In just a month, the Border Patrols Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008. Humanitarian groups are carting more water south of tiny Ajo, Arizona, where smugglers leave migrants from faraway places like India, China, Senegal and Maur...

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat and sending rescues soaring. In just a month, the Border Patrols Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008. Humanitarian groups are carting more water south of tiny Ajo, Arizona, where smugglers leave migrants from faraway places like India, China, Senegal and Maur...

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat and sending rescues soaring. In just a month, the Border Patrols Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008. Humanitarian groups are carting more water south of tiny Ajo, Arizona, where smugglers leave migrants from faraway places like India, China, Senegal and Maur...

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat.

Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree heat to a canopied field intake center. The…

Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants -- a family with three children from India -- into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree heat to a canopied field intake center.