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New York (AFP) - Sally Hernandez, age 12, sobbed Wednesday as the New York hotel where she and her immigrant family were sheltering expelled them before she could say goodbye to the Girl Scout troop she belonged to at her makeshift home. Such painful departures are more and more common as the city applies new housing rules for a flood of migrants, while border control and people like Sally who lack residency papers take center stage ahead of the November general election. New York's city hall, overwhelmed by the crisis, is implementing a new rule under which migrants cannot spend more than 60 ...
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Santiago (AFP) - While leaders around the world remember Henry Kissinger fondly and praise him as a brilliant, hard-driving US statesman, the silence from Latin America is deafening. "A man has died whose historical brilliance never managed to conceal his moral wretchedness," Chile's ambassador to the United States, Juan Gabriel Valdes, wrote on X, the former Twitter. The envoy posted his acerbic remark after the death Wednesday of Kissinger, who greenlighted the 1973 coup that brought down Chile's elected socialist president and installed the rightwing dictatorship of general Augusto Pinochet...
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Washington (AFP) - The massive backlog of cases in US immigration courts has made it evermore attractive for many migrants to come to the United States, knowing that they can work legally for years without being deported as their cases inch through the system. The approximately 650 immigration judges carry a backlog of more than 2.4 million cases, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an organization at Syracuse University. "We're facing a truly daunting volume," said David L. Neal, director of the US Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review, du...
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Brussels (AFP) - Many people in Latin America see migration as "the only option they have" after enduring successive crises of climate change, Covid and spiking food prices, the World Food Programme's head for the region told AFP. "It's a hemispheric migration," the official for the United Nations organisation, Lola Castro, said in an interview in Brussels. "People are transiting everywhere in the continent... all the way to the border with the US and Mexico, everywhere is affected by migration, and the governments are telling us 'What do we do with all these masses of people transiting?'" The...
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El Paso (United States) (AFP) - The US-Mexico border appeared calm on Friday as tough asylum rules come into force, with senior officials in Washington expressing confidence that the new system would work. Thousands of people remained on the Mexican side of the frontier hoping to enter the United States, but the chaotic surge of migrants that right-wing politicians predicted failed to materialize. "We are seeing people arrive at our southern border, as we expected, as we have been planning for," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday. "We are screening and vetting them and ...
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El Paso (United States) (AFP) - Pandemic-era rules that have allowed US border guards to summarily expel hundreds of thousands of would-be asylum-seekers expired Friday, setting up an uncertain future for migrants and inflaming America's always-churning immigration debate. Tens of thousands of people were expected to try to cross into the United States over the coming days, hoping to escape the poverty and criminal gangs that wrack their own countries. But in an effort to avoid a surge, President Joe Biden's administration has put in place rules that raise the bar for anyone claiming refuge. "...
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El Paso (United States) (AFP) - The clock ticked towards the expiry Thursday of pandemic-era rules that have shuttered the US southern border to asylum seekers, with thousands queuing in Mexico in the hope of claiming refuge under an uncertain new regime. From midnight East Coast time, anyone who illegally enters the United States can be expelled, facing a lengthy ban on coming back and possible criminal charges, the White House says -- part of tough talk designed to assuage fears of a spike in migrant arrivals. "Our borders are not open," declared Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorka...
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Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - The fate of tens of thousands of people seeking asylum at the United States' southern border will, from Friday, hinge on an app that has just 2.5 stars in the App Store. For immigration managers, a sleek, computerised way to manage the wave of people expected to arrive when Covid-era rules lapse must have been tempting. But for poor, exhausted people whose phones don't work, or who have no access to wifi or electricity, it's just another almost-impossible hurdle. "It's amazing that an app practically decides our lives and our future," Jeremy de Pablos, a 21-year-...
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Brownsville (United States) (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday was readying its response to an expected surge of migrants seeking to enter, with officials saying 24,000 law enforcement personnel have been deployed to the Mexican border. President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the border will be "chaotic for a while" with the expiration of Covid pandemic rules that had forbidden virtually all asylum claims there. Tens of thousands of people are waiting at crossing points for the end of so-called Title 42 overnight Thursday into Friday, despite the Biden administration vowing to enforce th...
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Brownsville (United States) (AFP) - The United States is girding for the arrival of thousands of migrants this week, with the expiry of pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the border all but impossible. The country's deep divisions over immigration are expected to be laid bare as a wave of people try to get a foothold in a place founded on the promise of safety and shelter, but where a rising tide of nationalism makes the welcome uncertain. Some migrants escaping economic and political turmoil have already arrived, frustrated by the years-long lack of a legal pathway, squeezin...
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