Thousands of families in Latin America are forced to leave their homes due to poverty, violence and the effects of climate change, heading towards the United States. Of the more than 828,000 migrants who have crossed the country irregularly so far this year, 97,000 are kids and adolescents
One month before the elections, the fear of a second Trump presidency has led thousands of migrants to request an appointment to cross into the US from the Mexico border
The state’s governor, Republican Greg Abbott, has harshly criticized the vice president and all-but-certain Democratic presidential candidate for her role in the immigration policies of the Biden administration
Housing nearly 2,000 animals, the zoo was the first ‘safari park’ in Latin America
A campaign by animal rights activists won the four-year-old giraffe a transfer to an animal park in Puebla state, where he will join a group of resident giraffes and enjoy a more suitable climate
Tourists are fleeing the devastated city, which has been cut off since early Wednesday by the cyclone after it made landfall on the coast of Guerrero
At the largest border crossing in the country, the memory of the recent deaths of 40 migrants — who were killed during a fire in a detention center — is more painful than the new security measures being implemented by the U.S. government
In Ciudad Juárez, hundreds of migrants, especially Venezuelans, are waiting to cross and surrender to the border police, encouraged by many others who have already done it. Their fate: a legal limbo awaiting deportation trials
Democratic administration waives 26 federal laws that could result in up to 20 miles of barriers in South Texas in bid to contain surge in illegal arrivals from Mexico
Mexican businesses estimate the economic impact of lower exports at over $1.2 billion so far
Saúl Armendáriz — who spent more than three decades in the world of ‘lucha libre’ — overcame discrimination, addiction, and a stroke to see his story brought to the big screen. In a new film, he is played by acclaimed Mexican actor Gael García Bernal
The victims of the blaze at the National Institute of Migration, which left 40 dead, speak for the first time about what happened on the night of March 27
In the most recent turn of events in the migratory crisis, the lifting of the controversial norm — decreed during the Trump administration — has filled the cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with thousands of people. They have terrible tales to tell. Here are a few of them
The end of Donald Trump’s Covid measure, which allowed the immediate expulsion of people, has not solved the problems in the area or between the governments of Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador
The Republicans in Congress have proposed a law that will make it tougher for people to enter the United States. Alejandro Mayorkas – the secretary of Homeland Security – warns of ‘difficult days ahead’
People in charge of centers hosting immigrants are anticipating an increase in deportations when the Donald Trump-era public health law ceases to be in force as of midnight on May 11
Federal prosecutors say Francisco Garduño was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s migrant centers
Three Mexican immigration officials, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in connection with the fire
EL PAÍS reconstructs the events leading up to the fiery deaths of 39 men detained at a Ciudad Juárez immigration center
Eager to gain favor with the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made life hard for migrants seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border
Viangly Infante, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, was outside the immigration facility waiting for her husband when the fire broke out. ‘They had the chance to open the cells and they didn’t do it. Why didn’t they do it?’
The Mexican authorities must get to the bottom of what took place at the border facility and determine who is responsible for the tragedy at whatever cost
The blaze at a Mexican government immigration facility left 38 people dead and 28 more seriously injured, the worst such tragedy in living memory
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility in Ciudad Juárez, near the U.S. border, after learning they would be deported
Powerful inmates manage their violent criminal enterprises while living in comfortable cells