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Plus: Harris counts on Guatemala to partner on migration reform, and advocates want to provide free legal representation to immigrants.

Migrant Parents Feel Forced to Send Children Across the Border Alone Many migrants are sending their children to the U.S. alone because those with older children are being rapidly expelled. Marely traveled for 13 days with her mother from El Salvador toward the U.S.-Mexico border. But once they made it to a raft to cross the Rio Grande, the 12-year-old found out her mother wasn’t coming with her. Marely had to then turn herself in to Border Patrol agents in La Joya, Texas. Her mother is among many migrants sending their children to the U.S. alone because migrant families with older children...

Newsroom Navigation Central American migrants crossing the Suchiate River between the Guatemalan and Mexican border. Photo: Oliver de Ros Human Smuggling Targeted in New White House Operation Human smugglers have tried to convince Central Americans that crossing the border is safe as the White House discourages crossings. The Biden administration announced an operation Tuesday that will concentrate on disrupting criminal organizations, which includes human smugglers who falsified information to migrants about crossing the border. Earlier this year, the U.S. sent a campaign through soci...

Migrant Boy Found Wandering Alone Was Deported and Kidnapped A young boy whose video was shared widely online was kidnapped and separated from his mother when his family couldn't pay for her release. Wilton Obregon and his mother Meylin, Nicaragua natives, crossed the border to Texas last month to seek asylum. But despite the Biden administration’s insistence that a public health order allowing rapid expulsions wouldn’t apply to children, the 10-year-old and his mother were dismissed to Mexico. Wilton’s brother Misael says they were kidnapped hours after the expulsion. Misael got a call...

Newsroom Navigation Central American migrants crossing the Suchiate River between the Guatemalan and Mexican border. Photo: Oliver de Ros Biden Administration Hesitant on Message for Migrants The administration is struggling to communicate a promising message to migrants while also urging them to not cross the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden’s coordinator for the southern border, Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, recognized the administration is struggling to communicate a promising message to migrants while also urging them to not cross the U.S.-Mexico border until the immigratio...