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First migrants cross into US from Mexico using mobile app

January 19, 2023

Mexican authorities keep watch as migrants descend from a tractor-trailer where they were transported to the US at a checkpoint in Chiapa de Corzo, in Chiapas state, Mexico Jan 18, 2023. (JACOB GARCIA / REUTERS) CIUDAD JUAREZ/MEXICO CITY – Migrants on Mexico's northern border on Wednesday began entering the United...

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Envoy: Ukraine’s peace summit may take place on Feb 24

January 13, 2023

A resident pushes his bike on a snow covered street next to destroyed residential buildings in Borodyanka, near Kyiv on Dec 4, 2022. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP) KYIV - Ukraine's Ambassador to Türkiye Vasyl Bodnar said that a summit to discuss the peace plan for Ukraine may take place on...

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‘New US border measures could undermine fundamental human rights’

January 12, 2023

Members of the Texas National Guard stand guard on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between the United States and Mexico, with the purpose of reinforcing border security and inhibiting the crossing of migrants to the US, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec 27, 2022. (JOSE LUIS...

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Biden visits US-Mexico border as immigration issue heats up

January 9, 2023

President Joe Biden talks with US Border Patrol agents as they walk along a stretch of the US-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Jan 8, 2023. (ANDREW HARNIK / AP) EL PASO, Texas - President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office,...

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Biden steps up migrant expulsions amid pressure

January 6, 2023

Haitian migrants who hope to apply for asylum in the US wait to register their names on a list made by a religious organization in Reynosa, Mexico, Dec 21, 2022, on the other side of the border with McAllen, Texas. (FERNANDO LLANO / AP) WASHINGTON - The United States will...

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Venezuela and Colombia fully reopen shared border

January 1, 2023

Pedestrians use the Simon Bolivar International Bridge to cross between San Antonio, Venezuela (behind) and Cucuta, Colombia at sunrise on Aug 8, 2022, along the border which Venezuela partially closed in 2015. (MATIAS DELACROIX / AP) CARACAS - Venezuela and Colombia will fully reopen their shared border on January 1...

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US eyes border expulsion for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians

December 29, 2022

Migrants eat and wait for help while camping on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas on Dec 18, 2022. (ANDRES LEIGHTON / AP) WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is planning to use pandemic-era restrictions to expel many Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught at the southwest border back to...

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US eyes expanding border expulsion for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians

December 29, 2022

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US top court keeps pandemic-era border curbs in place for now

December 28, 2022

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Frustration among migrants at US-Mexico border

December 21, 2022

Migrants gather at a crossing into El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec 20, 2022. (CHRISTIAN CHAVEZ / AP) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico / WASHINGTON - When Vladimir Castellanos learned that COVID-19 restrictions blocking him and other migrants from claiming asylum at the US border with Mexico may...

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400 US troops sent to border as top court halts lifting asylum policy

December 20, 2022

Migrants eat and wait for help while camping on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas on Dec 18, 2022. (ANDRES LEIGHTON / AP) HOUSTON - The US state Texas on Monday deployed more than 400 National Guard troops and other personnel to El Paso, a city bordering Mexico, as...

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Biden under pressure over expected easing of asylum rules

December 19, 2022

US President Joe Biden holds a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Nov 14, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON - US lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, on Sunday pressed Democratic President Joe Biden to take action...

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Republican states seek to preserve Trump-era US border curbs

November 22, 2022

A group of migrants look for a place to cross the Rio Grande in Piedras Negras, Mexico on November, 16, 2022. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP) WASHINGTON – A coalition of states with Republican attorneys general took legal steps on Monday to retain pandemic border curbs recently ruled unlawful by a...

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Finnish govt earmarks 6m euros for Russia border pilot section

October 28, 2022

The Finnish-Russian Imatra border crossing is pictured in Imatra, south-eastern Finland, on May 13, 2022. (ALESSANDRO RAMPAZZO / AFP) HELSINKI - The government of Finland has earmarked six million euros ($5.98 million) for the construction of a three-km pilot section of a fence on the country's border with Russia, it...

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Colombia, Venezuela working on full border reopening

August 19, 2022

Pedestrians use the Simon Bolivar International Bridge to cross between San Antonio, Venezuela, behind, and Cucuta, Colombia at sunrise on Aug 8, 2022, along the border which Venezuela partially closed in 2015. (MATIAS DELACROIX / AP) CUCUTA, COLOMBIA - The full reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela border will come sooner rather...

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Colombia and Venezuela to appoint new ambassadors, rebuild ties

July 29, 2022

Alvaro Leyca (center), the designated foreign minister of Colombia appointed by next president Gustavo Preto, delivers a speech next to Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faria (left) and Tachira Governor Freddy Bernal (right), after a meeting at the border city of San Cristobal, Venezuela, on July 28, 2022. (JOHNNY PARRA /...

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The border’s toll: Migrants increasingly die crossing into US

July 26, 2022

Migrants line up as they wait to be processed by US Border Patrol after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona in the early morning of July 11, 2022. Every year, tens of thousands of migrants fleeing violence or poverty in Central and South America attempt to cross the...

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Sudan reopens border crossing with Ethiopia to resolve disputes

July 18, 2022

Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in the Tigray region transport jerrycans of water at Umm Rakuba camp in eastern Sudan's Gedaref State on Aug 11, 2021. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) KHARTOUM - Sudan decided on Sunday to open the Galabat crossing on the border with Ethiopia in an effort...

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Mexican foreign minister slams ‘extortion’ by Texas in border tiff

May 3, 2022

US Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to stop migrants as they cross the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Acuna into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept 19, 2021. (FELIX MARQUEZ / AP) MEXICO CITY - The pressure Texas exerted on neighboring Mexican states last month to tighten border security...

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Record high: US arrests 210,000 migrants at Mexico border

April 18, 2022

In this file photo dated Dec 22, 2021, migrants heading in a caravan towards the US wait for buses at the "House of the Pilgrim San Juan Diego" in Mexico City. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) WASHINGTON - US border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico...