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Panama City (AFP) - Doctors Without Borders said Thursday the Panamanian government has halted its humanitarian activities in the notorious Darien Gap after it criticized a sharp rise in sexual violence against migrants who pass through there. Last week, the NGO that goes by its French initials MSF, reported an "extreme" level of brutality against migrants who undertake the dangerous trek through the jungle between Colombia and Panama on their way to the United States. And it urged the Panamanian authorities to redouble efforts to protect the most vulnerable people "on their territory." On Thu...
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New York (AFP) - New York has sued bus companies transporting migrants from the southern US border to the city for $708 million, the mayor said on Thursday. For more than two years, Texas Governor Greg Abbot has chartered coaches to move newly arrived migrants from the border to New York and other Democratic-run cities in protest at what he claims are the national government's failings on immigration. New York had sought to curb the arrival of buses carrying migrants by limiting where they could drop passengers, and introducing prior notification requirements. But those requirements, introduce...
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New York (AFP) - New York has moved to curb a Texas policy of busing thousands of migrants to the city, part of a growing battle over immigration that is already a core campaign issue ahead of 2024 presidential polls. Mayor Eric Adams ordered that buses carrying migrants from the southern border with Mexico must give 32-hours notice before arriving in the city, and limited the times when such charter services can drop off passengers. Texas Governor Greg Abbot has chartered coaches to move newly-arrived migrants from the border to New York in protest at what he claims are the national governmen...
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New York (AFP) - Blanca, an asylum seeker with two daughters, must leave the New York City shelter she has called home for the past year after Christmas to make room for new arrivals. The 35-year-old, whose real name and country of origin have been withheld for her safety, is facing a torturous vicious cycle. As the asylum application of her and her eldest daughter are being processed, she does not have a work permit and could not work anyway as she has no one with whom to leave her youngest, who is nine months old. "I'm going through a very difficult situation," she tells AFP at the Little S...
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San Diego (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants congregate by the huge wall marking the US-Mexico border in southern California, a tiny glimpse of the crisis unfolding in American cities as new arrivals strain resources to breaking point. The dysfunction in the border city of San Diego is repeated on a larger scale in hubs like New York and Chicago -- testing the patience of local Democratic leaders who say their own man in the White House is failing on a very pressing problem. "The reality is that we don't have sufficient funds," Nora Vargas, a Democrat on San Diego County's Board of Supervisors, told...
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Mexico City (AFP) - The deaths of 39 detained migrants in a fire in Mexico are a reminder of the "dirty work" the country does for the United States to stem migrant flows, experts say. Many thousands of US-bound migrants are stranded in Mexico, struggling to survive in crime-ridden border towns without jobs or resources. Shelters are overflowing and many migrants live on the street, at the risk of tensions with local populations such as in Ciudad Juarez, the border city where the fire broke out Monday in an immigration detention center. All of which illustrates that the tragedy is the result o...
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Mexico City (AFP) - A fire that killed at least 39 people at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico is the latest in a series of tragedies involving US-bound migrants. Every year many thousands of people fleeing violence and poverty risk deadly accidents, drowning and crime during a long and treacherous journey overland from South or Central America. According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 7,600 migrants have died or disappeared in transit in the Americas since 2014. Of those, around 4,400 people perished or went missing on the US-Mexican border crossin...
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San Antonio (AFP) - Dozens of migrants wait in line outside a shelter in San Antonio, most of them young men but also women and children, hoping for a hot meal and a roof over their head. Every year thousands like them pass through this Texas city on the frontline of America's struggle to cope with waves of migrants seeking to escape poverty and violence and find a better life in the United States. The city is 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the border with Mexico and is often the first stop on an odyssey across the country as migrants fight to remain in America and settle down to a new life. ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - At least 37 undocumented migrants traveling through Mexico have died so far this year, most of whom drowned attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the United States, Mexico's government reported Sunday. In addition to four migrants who died due to various causes in the states of Veracruz and Baja, "33 drowned due to the force of the current, the depth and the low temperatures of the Rio Bravo (Grande)" delineating the Mexico-US border, said the National Institute of Migration (INM) in a press statement. It added that 22 of the migrants "were not carrying identification," w...
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Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico) (AFP) - Mexico on Friday urged Washington to rethink its migration policy after a horror road accident killed 55 undocumented migrants in a truck on a major transit route to the United States. Bodies draped in white sheets lined the roadside near Tuxtla Gutierrez in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a truck transporting some 160 migrants -- most from Central America -- overturned Thursday. Passengers, bleeding and with broken bones, lay in the road crying out in pain after the latest disaster to befall desperate people traveling through Mexico in search of ...
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