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'Arbitrary' and 'absurd': Uneven enforcement at Texas border prompts migrants to try, try again Two Haitian women, with similar back stories, met starkly different fates after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. Story by Lauren Villagran | Photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times Published 3:52 pm UTC Apr. 9, 2021 Marie Martine and Briyanne Jeanniton fled their native Haiti, traveled for years on parallel journeys across two continents before landing at the Texas border. Their paths never crossed but, in March, they each made what they hoped would be their last leg: They surrendered to B...

2021/04/09 23:04 A nurse shows an elderly man a syringe prepared with dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, before he is inoculated at the Americas Cultural Center, in... A nurse shows an elderly man a syringe prepared with dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, before he is inoculated at the Americas Cultural Center, in Ecatepec, Mexico, Saturday, April 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme) MEXICO CITY (AP) — Many private-practice doctors, dentists and health care workers in Mexico are protesting that they have been left out of a government-run coro...

Catholic immigration advocates say 'Christian response' needed at border Apr 9, 2021 national correspondent A mother from Guatemala seeking asylum in the U.S. kisses her 3-month-old baby while waiting to be escorted by Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas, April 7, 2021, after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States. (Credit: Go Nakamura/Reuters, via CNS). While democrat leaders continue to point the finger at the previous administration for present challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border, and republican leaders similarly highlight the shortcomings of the current administration, one U.S. B...

Share on Twitter The US state of New York will issue one-time payments of up to $15,000 USD ($19,700 AUD) to undocumented migrants who lost work during the pandemic under a multi-billion-dollar fund championed by progressive Democrats but opposed by Republicans. The payments, by far the largest of their kind in the United States, will help tens of thousands of people who arrived in the US illegally and who are unable to collect unemployment insurance or federal stimulus checks. The state's congress approved the $2.1 billion USD ($2.76 billion AUD) 'excluded workers' fund on Wednes...

University officials say UTEP is prepared to meet the needs of these incoming students. The pandemic has impacted education at every level and schools across the U.S. are trying to determine how to address potential learning loss and gaps in education, particularly among K-12 students. Wilson said the university will push to make higher education an option for more in the community.  "UTEP focuses intensely on students who have been historically underrepresented by higher education, and if you look at the demographics of the students that we serve, two-thirds of them come from families mak...