Guatemala election winner Alejandro Giammattei sets sights on changing U.S. migrant deal
Guatemalan conservative Alejandro Giammattei secured a crushing victory in a presidential election Sunday, and promised to seek better terms for his country from an unpopular migration deal agreed with Washington under duress last month. With preliminary results from over 99 percent of polling stations counted, ...
The Trump administration's top diplomat for Latin America has resigned amid internal disputes over immigration policy for the region, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Two officials and a congressional aide said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Kimberly Breier stepped down earlier this week, ...
$799 a day: Immigrants taking sanctuary in churches hit with huge U.S. fines
Devotional candles to St. Jude, the Holy Trinity and the Virgin of Guadalupe sit on a bookshelf by the door of a classroom in a United Methodist church. A sewing machine is a few feet away between a bed and a set of wicker ...
Fear, bribes, gangs, coyotes, and return to Mexico: A Guatemalan's tenuous trek to the U.S.
Rene, a 35-year-old man from Guatemala, stretched and paced inside a Tijuana warehouse as he awaited word that it was time for a three-day hike into California through the nearby mountains. It would be his second attempt to cross the border illegally in a little ...
Mexico's government said on Saturday it would help Honduras create 20,000 jobs this year and support its coffee farmers as the two countries seek to curb migration to the United States that has created tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez ...
Young Central Americans seeking asylum in U.S. easy prey for MS13 gang
Young Central American asylum-seekers fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries are increasingly falling prey to the notorious MS13 gang in the United States, authorities say. The youngsters, most of them from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, are proving to be easy targets for ...
The Trump administration signed an agreement with Guatemala on Friday that will restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. The "safe third country" agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the U.S. to apply ...
Judge won't block Trump's U.S. asylum restrictions at southern border as suits play out
A federal judge said Wednesday that the Trump administration can enforce its new restrictions on asylum for people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while lawsuits challenging the policy play out. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly denied a request for a temporary restraining order, saying the immigrant ...
Guatemala scrubs Trump summit, will not sign 'safe third country' deal
Guatemala said on Sunday it would postpone President Jimmy Morales' visit to Washington to discuss Guatemala's potential designation as a "safe third country" for asylum seekers, stressing that it has no plans to sign such an agreement. In a statement, Guatemala said the planned meeting ...
In 'safe third country' plan, Guatemala is ill-prepared to assist U.S.-bound refugees
A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a "safe third country" for asylum-seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Jimmy Morales is set to meet Monday in Washington with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, and officials ...
'Our lost son': Migrant boy still separated from parents after dad is deported
Fourteen months ago, Byron Xol was packed in a wooden crate by smugglers and shipped from Guatemala to the U.S., only to be grabbed immediately by border agents and ripped away from his father. His dad was deported. Byron remained, locked away with the thousands ...
Mexican authorities send more U.S.-bound migrants in south to detention center
U.S. authorities reinforced efforts over the weekend to deter Central Americans and others from crossing Mexico to reach the United States, detaining migrants in the south and stationing National Guardsmen along the Rio Grande in the north. In Arriaga, a town in the southern state ...
