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The Trump administration said Thursday it will deny asylum to migrants who enter the United States illegally, invoking extraordinary presidential national security powers to tighten the border as caravans of Central Americans slowly approach the border. The measures are meant to funnel asylum-seekers through official ...
One Japanese woman in her 20s has been killed and another seriously injured at a home in Guatemala, it was learned Monday. Local media reported that they may have been attacked by thieves. The Japanese Embassy in Guatemala said that one woman was found dead Sunday ...
Second U.S.-bound migrant group enters Mexico as main caravan resumes trek north
Hundreds of Central Americans following in the footsteps of a thousands-strong migrant caravan making its way toward the U.S. border crossed a river from Guatemala into Mexico on Monday, defying a heavy Federal Police presence deployed to patrol that country's southern frontier. A low-flying police ...
A new group of migrants bound for the United States set off from El Salvador on Sunday, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks. The group of more than 300 Salvadorans left the capital ...
Second U.S.-bound migrant caravan moves through Guatemala toward Mexico
A group of more than a thousand Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Tuesday as the first caravan of migrants paused in southern Mexico on its planned journey towards the U.S. border. U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to begin cutting ...
Trump vows to cut Central America aid as U.S.-bound migrant caravan rolls on
President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants rolled on regardless toward the U.S. border. The United Nations said more than 7,000 people were now heading ...
Central American migrants defy threats from Trump on trek north toward U.S.
About 2,000 Central American migrants who circumvented Mexican police at a border bridge and swam, forded and floated across the river from Guatemala decided on Saturday to re-form their mass caravan and continue their trek northward toward the United States. Gathered at a park in ...
Migrant caravan halted on Mexico-Guatemala border as pressure to turn back mounts
Hundreds of people in a caravan of migrants that crossed from Honduras into Guatemala tried unsuccessfully to breach the Mexican border on Friday as local governments began making preparations to disperse the convoy. U.S. President Donald Trump has warned the Central American caravan must be ...
President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border on Thursday as Hondurans and Salvadorans joined thousands of migrants in Guatemala hoping to travel north. "I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught — and ...
Trump tweets jab at Democrats as migrant caravan starts moving north again in Guatemala
More than 2,000 Honduran migrants traveling en masse through Guatemala resumed their journey toward the United States on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump sought to turn the caravan into a political issue three weeks before midterm elections. A day after warning Central American governments ...
Honduras and Guatemala move to stop migrant caravan after Trump threats
The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained in Guatemala on Tuesday as the U.S. government threatened to withdraw aid from both countries and El Salvador if the flow of migrants north to the United States was not stopped. Up to 3,000 migrants, ...
Ancient altar found in Guatemala reveals Mayan 'Game of Thrones' dynasty
A 1,500-year-old Maya altar discovered in a small archeological site in northern Guatemala is drawing comparisons to the popular fantasy television series "Game of Thrones" for its descriptions of the Kaanul dynasty's political strategies aimed at bringing entire cities under its control. The altar, carved ...
