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Palominas (United States) (AFP) - John Ladd, who says he could ride a horse before he could walk, is a fourth-generation rancher from a family that arrived in Arizona when the border between Mexico and the United States was just a line on the map. Now he views that frontier -- and the thousands of people who spill across it every day -- as a threat to his whole way of life. "It rules how we run the ranch now, and that isn't the most effective way," he told AFP. Ladd's sprawling cattle farm runs right up against the wall that -- at least in this stretch -- separates Mexico from the United State...
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Panama City (AFP) - The frontrunner in Panama's presidential election vowed Tuesday to block US-bound migrants from crossing the lawless jungle straddling his country's border with Colombia and to begin deportations. Last year, more than half a million people braved the so-called Darien Gap, where they faced perilous river crossings and violent criminal gangs that extort, kidnap and abuse them. "We're going to close the Darien and we're going to repatriate all these people," Jose Raul Mulino told reporters during a visit to a working class suburb of the capital, without saying exactly how he w...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The death of six Latino workers who were fixing potholes when a Baltimore bridge collapsed highlights the crucial role immigrants play in keeping America running, say advocates. And it stands in stark contrast to the rhetoric of populists like Donald Trump, who cast them as criminal invaders ruining the country. "Migrants come and do the jobs that Americans don't want to do," said Luis Vega, an activist and former construction worker. The work is too hard, the hours are too long, or the conditions too difficult. "Who here wants to clean hotel rooms? Who wants to work under...
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Geneva (AFP) - With 2024 set to see more elections worldwide than any previous year, the United Nations' migration chief says increasing anti-migrant rhetoric from politicians seeking to score points is harming societies. While the expected rematch between US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump in November has drawn keen attention, numerous other high-stakes ballots are also coming up this year. Amy Pope, who last year became the first woman to head the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM), told AFP in an interview this week that with so many elections looming, ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - It wasn't his first choice, but Mexico is now home for Evens Luxama -- along with thousands of other Haitians forced to put their hopes of migrating to the United States on hold. The 34-year-old is one of a growing number of people from the crisis-torn Caribbean nation pursuing what activists have described as the "Mexican dream," building a life in a land that migrants traditionally hurried through. "I wanted to go to the United States, but I don't think there's another country that offers the opportunity that Mexico does right now," said Luxama, who hopes his partner and ...
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Washington (AFP) - As political and racial persecution grew worse in his native Mauritania, Barry looked for a way out. Scouring discussion groups on social media for tips on clandestine migration, he soon found that the longtime standby of risky sea voyages in leaky open boats to Europe wasn't the only option. There was the United States -- via Mexico. The journey of Barry -- who asked only to be identified by his first name -- by land from Mexico in July reflects the growing reality of the southern US border becoming a global way station for asylum seekers, rather than only Latin American m...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States and Mexico vowed on Friday to "work together" to resolve the migration crisis, resuming urgent high-level talks against a backdrop of election-year pressure for the Biden administration to take tougher measures. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was hosting Mexican counterpart Alicia Barcena just three weeks after he made his own visit to Mexico, said the two sides had made "great progress" in the short time since then. Blinken told reporters the work of "reducing the unprecedented irregular migration surge" should get a boost from the recent inaugu...
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Washington (AFP) - The Biden administration on Sunday denounced what it said was "dangerous" obstruction by Texas authorities, after three migrants drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico in disputed circumstances. "On Friday night, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked US Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance," said a statement from White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez. It continued: "While we continue to gather facts about the circumstances of these tragic deaths, one thing is clear: Governor ...
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Panama City (AFP) - Nicaragua has become a hot spot for migrants from around the world seeking to avoid a brutal trek through the Darien Gap jungle -- including the 303 Indians whose plane was grounded last week in France on their way to the Central American nation. Migrants from South American and Caribbean countries, Africa and Asia, have long had to brave the lawless, virtually impassable rainforest that straddles Panama and Colombia, in a bid to reach the United States. However, analysts say that the government of Nicaragua's iron-fisted President Daniel Ortega, a longtime nemesis of the U...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that his government would step up efforts to contain irregular migration flows, ahead of a high-level US visit next week. The pledge came a day after Lopez Obrador spoke with US President Joe Biden by telephone about the hot-button issue. Lopez Obrador said the "extraordinary" migration situation would be the focus of talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior US officials in Mexico City on Wednesday. He said that Mexico would boost containment measures in the south near the Guatemalan border. "The...
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