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Costa Rica pushes greater regional cooperation on Cuban, African migration

Foreign Minister Manuel González said illegal immigration requires “structural solutions," including a change in U.S. immigration policy that incentivizes Cuban immigration.

Costa Rica doubles police presence at Panama border to curb illegal immigration

The Public Security Ministry is doubling the number of officers patrolling the southern border with Panama.

Stranded Cuban migrants say goodbye to Costa Rica as airlift begins

The latest wave of Cuban migration has drawn increased skepticism from some representatives to the 1966 law that grants them preferential status in the US.

Cuban migrants spend a month in camps as regional leaders fail to reach solution

Belize’s refusal to receive the migrants means that thousands of Cuban migrants will remain stuck in temporary shelters as the holidays approach.

President Solís, church leaders discuss Cuban migrant crisis

The nearly 1,000 Cuban migrants at the Nicaraguan border have become a diplomatic hot potato as countries blame one another for the crisis.

Costa Rica calls for regional meeting to address flood of Cuban migrants

Costa Rica called Tuesday for establishing a humanitarian corridor for Cuban migrants traveling overland through the Americas to the United States.

Calls for action on Europe’s migrant crisis after Austrian tragedy

"Europe needs to stop being moved and start moving," Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said, calling again for a fairer distribution of migrants among the European Union's 28 members.

US judge to order release of immigrant women and children from holding facilities

Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported on a key ruling by a U.S. federal judge who in coming days plans to order the release of hundreds of immigrant women and children from holding facilities in the United States. Most of those immigrants originated from Latin American countries.

The bloody origins of the Dominican Republic’s ethnic ‘cleansing’ of Haitians

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the head of the Dominican Republic's immigration agency, Army Gen. Ruben Paulino, said his agency will begin patrolling neighborhoods with large numbers of migrants on Thursday. "If they aren't registered, they will be repatriated," Paulino said, according to the AP.

US to grant refugee status to Central American child migrants

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States will allow some Central American children to apply for refugee status from their home countries, as Washington seeks to stem a large, clandestine influx of minors, U.s. Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

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