A couple pass coronavirus advice and a Christmas tree in Covent Garden in London on Monday. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends Wednesday. Photo by … Read More
Vice President Joe Biden meets with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina in Guatemala City in June 2014. Biden traveled to Central America in hopes of slowing the flood of child migrants crossing the U.S. border. –(Saul Martinez / EPA) WASHINGTON — … Read More
Family separations. The travel ban. The wall. Gutting the asylum and refugee systems. Pushing to abolish DACA. Those policies implemented by President Donald Trump helped define his legacy, fulfilling some of his campaign promises while enraging many Americans and further isolating the U.S. from … Read More
Mexico’s president has promised to curb corruption and the influence of drug cartels by giving the military more powers. But a new plan to hand over the administration of ports to the generals is controversial. Since taking office at the … Read More
Migrants being floated over the Rio Suchiate border from Guatemala to Mexico, January 2020, where they were required to apply for Mexican asylum if they want to stay. Photo by Todd Bensman. A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 … Read More
FILE – This April 22, 2020, file photo, shows Juarez, Mexico, and the Rio Grande from El Paso Texas. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File) WASHINGTON – The number of migrants detained along the Mexico border jumped 40 percent in June, defying … Read More
The coast of southern Mexico was rattled by a powerful earthquake on Tuesday morning that killed at least two people and triggered a tsunami alert for Pacific coastlines along Central America. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 and struck at 11:29 a.m. ET, 7 miles … Read More
Laborers have not just stopped traveling in search of work. Many have also headed back to their home countries. Migrants at a bridge on the Mexico-United States border wait to reschedule their immigration hearings.Credit…Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters MEXICO CITY — A … Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Construction of the wall at the southern border has sped up amid the coronavirus crisis, and it remains a “top priority” for the Trump administration, the head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told Fox News this week. “This pandemic has not … Read More
Getty Images The United States closed its borders with Canada and Mexico to all but “essential” traffic more than a month ago, on April 7, the day our book “North American Borders in Comparative Perspective” (University of Arizona Press 2020) was published. The … Read More