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New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms, swells as hundreds wait at U.S.-Mexico border
At least 150 Salvadorans set off on Sunday from their impoverished Central American country in a U.S.-bound caravan, ignoring their likely rejection at the U.S.-Mexico border where a larger caravan of mostly Hondurans has been stalled for days. Guarded by police officers, the men, women ...
Venezuelan migrants break bread with new Colombian neighbors
Hundreds of struggling Venezuelan migrants have broken bread with their new Colombian neighbors at an outdoor breakfast and religious ceremony. Sunday's event coincides with the World Day of the Poor headed by Pope Francis. It's organized by a nonprofit behind a yearly fundraising dinner for ...
Many of the nearly 3,000 Central American migrants who have reached the Mexican border with California via caravan said Saturday they do not feel welcome in the city of Tijuana, where hundreds more migrants are headed after more than a month on the road. The ...
Migrants face hostility as they crowd Tijuana shelters while thousands more head to U.S. border
Members of a migrant caravan started to meet some local resistance as they continued to arrive by the hundreds in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where a group of residents clashed with migrants camped out by the U.S. border fence. About 100 migrants declined ...
Migrants squatting in abandoned Rome penicillin plant demand better lodgings
As political temperatures simmer in Italy over undocumented migrants, a group of mostly Africans squatting in an abandoned penicillin factory on Rome's northeast outskirts on Wednesday demanded more dignified lodgings. "We are human beings, not Martians," a Senegalese spokesman for the group, John, said as ...
Remember the 'bad thugs' caravan? After elections, focus on U.S.-bound migrants dries up
Did someone say caravan? One week after Election Day, President Donald Trump's daily drumbeat of warnings about a caravan of "bad thugs" and potential terrorists intent on invading the U.S. from Mexico has largely fallen silent. The migrant caravans are still trudging along, the largest still ...
Chill sets in as U.S.-bound migrant caravan treks to western Mexico city of Guadalajara
Several thousand Central American migrants marked a month on the road Monday as they hitched rides to the western Mexico city of Guadalajara and toward the U.S. border. Most appear intent on taking the Pacific coast route northward to the border city of Tijuana, which ...
U.S.-bound migrant caravan heads to central Mexican city of Irapuato
Local Mexican officials were once again Sunday helping thousands of Central American migrants find rides on the next leg of their journey toward the U.S. border. At a toll plaza to the west of the central Mexico city of Queretaro, where the group spent Saturday ...
U.N. says there are 3 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants as exodus continues
The United Nations says there are now 3 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela. The U.N. refugee agency and the U.N. migration agency announced Thursday that 2.4 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants are in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the rest are in other ...
Central American migrants in Mexico want buses to U.S. border to avoid dangers
Central American migrants in a caravan that has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it is too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking. Mexico City authorities say that of the 4,841 registered migrants receiving ...
Migrants in caravan shrug over U.S. vote, focus on northern Mexico dangers
The migrants in a caravan used by President Donald Trump as a campaign issue were almost universally unaware of the results of the U.S. midterm elections. The Central Americans were more concerned with the dangers of northern Mexico as they struggled to reach the U.S. ...
Trump views midterms through presidency-defining lens as aides try to lay out poll outcome realities
President Donald Trump knows he's on the line. The president spent Election Day calling allies, tweeting endorsements and following news coverage, after concluding a six-day rally blitz in Missouri late Monday. Trump packed his closing argument with hardline immigration rhetoric and harsh attacks on Democrats ...
