News Links tagged "Migration"
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico Expresa Su Reconocimiento al Voto Mayoritario y Bipartidista en el Comite de Asuntos Legales del Senado de Estados Unidos con el Que Avanza la Iniciativa de Reforma Migratoria S 744 |
| Author/Source: | Embajada De Mexico En Estados Unidos |
| Brief: | Mexico espera que el resultado final de este proceso sea amplio e incluyente, con objeto de que reconozca las contribuciones de los migrantes, profundice nuestra asociacion estrategica bilateral y fomente la prosperidad regional. |
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Arizona Desert Swallows Migrants on Riskier Paths |
| Author/Source: | Fernanda Santos, Rebekah Zemansky New York Times |
| Brief: | As security at the border has tightened, pushing migrants to seek more remote and dangerous routes, the largest number of the deaths last year occurred along the punishing stretch of desert that spans the southernmost tip of the Border Patrol's Tucson sec |
Monday, May 20, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Sherman Associated Press News Observer |
| Brief: | The current system of immigration enforcement and deportation produces a constant flow of people north and south that provides the cartel with a vulnerable labor pool and steady source of revenue. |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration |
| Title: | Report ranks Border Patrol punishments, finding long bus trips among least effective |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Washington Post |
| Brief: | A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally has one of the worst track records at discouraging people from trying again. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | A great country deserves a great immigration system |
| Author/Source: | Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Fox News |
| Brief: | In an effort to save lives, many ranchers leave stashes of water throughout their property, but the corpses continue to accumulate at an alarming rate. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Study: The U.S. stops about half of illegal border crossings from Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Brad Plumer Washington Post |
| Brief: | The U.S. government doesn't provide good data on whether border security is actually working. |
Monday, May 13, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Premium Article Mexican priest visits Dallas seeking changes in immigration policies |
| Author/Source: | The Dallas Morning News |
| Brief: | Migration can't be stopped, said the priest on a two-day visit in Dallas. It can be managed much better, though, he said. |
Friday, May 10, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Lindsey Graham blames immigration woes on south-of-the-border 'hell holes' |
| Author/Source: | Sandra Hernandez Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The GOP’s effort to woo Latinos may have suffered a minor setback Thursday, thanks to Sen. Lindsey Graham. |
Thursday, May 9, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Want to Track Deaths Along the Border? There's an App for That. |
| Author/Source: | Tim Murphy| Mother Jones |
| Brief: | On Monday, the county medical examiner's office and Humane Borders, a human rights group based in Tucson, unveiled the Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In Mexico, Families Hope Immigration Reform Will Trigger Long-Awaited Reunions |
| Author/Source: | Jude Joffe-Block PRI |
| Brief: | For years, families on both sides of the border have lived apart, with Mexicans in the US without papers afraid of visiting home and then being unable to cross back. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | South Texas county faces wave of migrant deaths |
| Author/Source: | Nick Miroff Washington Post |
| Brief: | The changing economics and geography of illegal immigration are taking a grim new toll in the flat, barren scrublands of South Texas, and especially Brooks County. |
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama in Mexico Amidst Demands for Migrant Rights |
| Author/Source: | Levi Bridges NACLA |
| Brief: | Hours after Obama spoke, a crowd of approximately 100 students, activists, and former migrants gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City to protest the record number of deportations—409,849 immigrants—from the United States in the fiscal year o |
Saturday, May 4, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Weekly Address: Fixing our Immigration System and Expanding Trade in Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama The White House |
| Brief: | We've put more boots on that border than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000. But we've got more to do - not just to secure the border but to fix an immigration system that is badly brok |
Friday, May 3, 2013
| Location: | Brazil, Haiti |
| Category: | Migration |
| Title: | Brazil removes cap on number of work visas for Haitians |
| Author/Source: | InfoSurHoy.com |
| Brief: | The decision comes after the northwestern state of Acre declared a social emergency in two of its border towns, Epitaciolândia and Brasileia, in April as it attempted to slow a wave of undocumented immigrants |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | Central American migrants attacked in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | It has become common for gunmen from the Zetas drug trafficking network, or affiliates, to extort money from mostly Central American migrants |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | Attack on train in Mexico injures at least 10 Honduran migrants; activists put toll higher |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The migrants had hopped on the train in southern Mexico and were traveling north through the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz when armed men demanding money attacked them with machetes and guns. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | How Obama's Mexico trip sends a message back home on immigration, too |
| Author/Source: | David Grant Christian Science Monitor |
| Brief: | President Obama's Mexico trip is emphasizing trade and commerce, but the message being sent back home is also tailored to influence the congressional debate over immigration reform |