The five Syrian men arrested in Honduras and the Syrian woman arrested in Costa Rica this week are being treated as undocumented migrants. Authorities said there was no sign they had any ties to the Islamic State group or other extremist organizations.
Under a tough new immigration law, the Dominican Republic has been systematically arresting Haitians and dumping them at the border to start life over.
Three Latin America-focused think tanks have teamed up to publish the first seven of a planned 15 policy briefs analyzing various aspects of Central American and Mexican migration at its points of departure, transit and settlement in both Mexico and the United States.
U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump booted the nation's top Latino newsman out of his news conference Tuesday evening, but moments later he let Univision's Jorge Ramos reclaim his seat in the front row, and the two men sparred passionately about illegal immigration.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who said the Ebola virus could "solve" Europe's immigration problem, finally proved too controversial for the political party he founded.
A Costa Rican-owned brewery pulled its beer from the Chicago Trump Hotel bar after The Donald's inflammatory comments about immigrants. Then it avenged all Latinos by changing the beer's name.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has described the traffickers who packed their human cargo into the boat as akin to 18th-century slave traders. Hundreds of the victims, including an unknown number of children, will have died in hellish circumstances having been locked in the hold or the middle deck of the 20-meter boat.
Some 11,000 migrants have been rescued since the middle of last week alone and current trends suggest last year's total of 170,000 landing in Italy is likely to be exceeded in 2015. The issue of who handles these migrants -- for asylum or repatriation -- is hugely sensitive, with Italy complaining that its E.U. partners are not doing enough.
