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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) —     A red pickup truck pulls up next to a migrant tent encampment in the Mexican city of Tijuana, its bed filled with loaves of bread and clothes. Men, women and children run to meet it. "A line! Form a line!" someone yells. A woman in a long skirt climbs into the truckbed and begins to preach into a microphone: "You all are hoping to cross into the United States!" she says. "You all are hoping to be blessed! Well, take God's hand!" Migrants raise their hands in prayer. Food can be scarce in the encampment, and the line stretches back down the road...

David Hernandez and Kristina Davis San Diego Union-Tribune Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot trawler-like boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos. The 41-year-old single mother from a small town in central Mexico hoped to work in agriculture in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her aspiration rested on the boat, which she and 31 other migrants with their own ambitions crowded aboard. In the U.S., her sister and two brothers — who live in Stockton and Salinas — awaited her arrival, according to Luis Magaña, an advocate of agri...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Searching for hope, 32 migrants were pushed to extremes in an attempt to enter the US [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-CALIF-CAPSIZED-BOAT-MIGRANTS:SD] SAN DIEGO — Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos. The 41-year-old from a small town in central Mexico hoped to work in agriculture in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her aspiration rested on the boat, which she and 31 other migrants with their own ambitions crowded aboard. But none of them made it to their inte...

A deadly wreck of a boat off Point Loma shows how decades of heightened border enforcement and recent pandemic policies have driven migrants to riskier crossings

SAN DIEGO — Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot, trawler-like boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos. The 41-year-old from a small town in central Mexico hoped to work in agriculture in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her aspiration rested on the boat, which she and 31 other migrants with their own ambitions crowded aboard. But none of them made it to their intended destinations. The boat crashed into a reef off Point Loma on May 2 and splintered. Chavez Segovia and two others drowned. Another person remains hospitalized, his...