First migrants cross into US from Mexico using mobile app

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...

Biden steps up migrant expulsions amid pressure

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...

Venezuela and Colombia fully reopen shared border

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...

Frustration among migrants at US-Mexico border

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...

Colombia, Venezuela working on full border reopening

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...

Colombia and Venezuela to appoint new ambassadors, rebuild ties

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 /...