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For Honduran youth, US is the only escape from poverty

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Wilmer Rodriguez's mother, Lesly Madariaga, spent a sleepless night looking for him in the streets of Nueva Suyapa, a poor neighborhood in the hills...
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‘Help us’: migrant caravan sees Biden as only hope

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Hungry and exhausted after three weeks walking across Mexico in a migrant caravan, Elsa Pineda implored US President Joe Biden to give her daughter...
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Mexico doesn’t want to be ‘migrant camp,’ president says

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Tens of thousands of migrants, many of them Haitians who had been living in South America, have arrived in recent weeks in Mexico hoping to enter the United States.
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Mexico urges immediate US action on migration causes

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Mexican authorities have arrested more than 147,000 undocumented migrants already this year -- three times more than in the same period of 2020, according to the National Migration Institute.
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A month after crossing river into US, immigrants face harsh reality

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They crossed the Rio Grande into the United States without papers and clutching their young children. Now, thousands of Central American immigrants face myriad...
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Mexico and Guatemala in joint effort to slow migrant caravans

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Some 3,000 undocumented migrants cross into Mexico daily, half of them via the southern states of Chiapas and Tabasco.
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Costa Rica Immigration Requirements – The Police Record Affidavit

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One of the main documents that people have to provide to the Costa Rica immigration authorities when requesting residency is the so called “police...
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‘American Dream’ dashed for migrants sent back to Mexico

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Many migrants continue to be deceived by human traffickers who tell them that the border is open to everyone.
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Surge in young migrant border arrivals poses challenge for United States

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Thousands of minors without papers are arriving at the US border with Mexico, presenting President Joe Biden with a potentially major crisis.
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Immigration to headline talks between Biden, Lopez Obrador

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Another key issue for the U.S. and Mexican leaders is cooperating on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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