Many migrants have been left stranded in Mexican border cities after the Trump administration immediately canceled tens of thousands of appointments made through a government app called CBP One that offered a legal pathway to the U.
They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants have given up after President Donald Trump’s
Swift deportation leaves a family separated, with 8-and 14-year-old boys still in Arizona, and a community working to connect them.
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US President Donald Trump reiterated on Tuesday that "Mexico is largely run by the cartels" and explained that if his government "wanted help with that, we would give it to them."
Flights, run by Venezuelan airline Conviasa, are part of a plan to repatriate thousands of migrants who fled Venezuela 'because of economic sanctions and the campaigns of psychological warfare against our country,
Finding the U.S. border effectively closed to them by drastic measures put in place by the Trump administration, thousands of Latin American migrants trapped in Mexico are gearing up for the hard trek back to their countries,
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Margelis Rodriguez, left, of Venezuela, pushes a stroller packed with laundry as her son Mickel steadies the load on their way to a nearby laundromat in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Maickeliys ...