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Fuente: Milenio
09/08/2022
El Departamento de Seguridad Interior de Estados Unidos anunció que pondrá fin al programa Quédate en México, el cual exige a los buscadores de asilo esperar en nuestro país mientras sus solicitudes se resuelven en la justicia. El anuncio se dio luego de que un juez levantara una orden judicial que impedía al gobierno de Joe Biden eliminar la política también llamada Permanecer en México.
Fuente: Excelsior
21/07/2022
Las ciudades de Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Ciudad Obregón, Irapuato, Cuautitlán Izcalli y Colima son las que tuvieron la mayor percepción de inseguridad, de acuerdo con la Encuesta Nacional de Seguridad Pública Urbana del segundo trimestre de 2022 del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.
El Inegi reveló que de estas ciudades, el orden de las más inseguras según los encuestados es:
La encuesta aplicada del 30 de mayo al 15 de junio a residentes de 75 ciudades de interés además reveló que del total de los encuestados el 67.4% consideró que era inseguro vivir en su ciudad, un aumento significativo respecto al resultado registrado en marzo de este año, cuando fue de 66.2%.
Source: AP News
7/12/2022
President Joe Biden is meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday for discussions the White House says will showcase the underlying strength of a relationship that of late has been more notable for the leaders’ disagreements on issues including energy and Ukraine policy.
López Obrador declined Biden’s invitation to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles last month after unsuccessfully urging the U.S. to include the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela — all countries with anti-democratic regimes. The Mexican leader also has called U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia “a crass error” and criticized the U.S. for moving more swiftly to provide military funding to Ukraine than financial aid to Central America.
07/01/2022
Source: NBC News
The Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a victory Thursday, ruling that he can shut down a Trump administration program designed to restrict immigration at the southern border.
The court said in a 5-4 ruling that the Biden administration acted properly in seeking to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols. It required people seeking asylum at the southern border, mainly from Central America, to wait in Mexico while their claims were decided.
06/29/2022
Source: The Washington Post
Soon after the horrific discovery of more than 40 dead migrants (the number would eventually grow to 53) and several injured inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) tried to use the tragedy to score a political point. “These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott tweeted. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies.”
His statement was disingenuous. In reality, the conditions that led dozens of human beings — including several children — to pile up inside a truck, without water or proper ventilation, is not the sole responsibility of the U.S. president. It is a failure shared by many regional actors, including the governor of Texas himself, who has made the dehumanization of the immigrant community a recurring political ploy.
Source: AP News
6/17/2022
Mexican immigration authorities said Thursday they found a veritable United Nations of migrants aboard a freight truck.
Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said the truck was carrying 366 migrants, including people from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Yemen, Uzbekistan and South Africa.
There were also people aboard from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Venezuela.
Agents found the truck parked on the side of a road in the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. There were so many migrants they were dangling their legs off the roof of the freight container.
06/10/2022
Source: Tribune Chronicle
A group of about 2,000 mainly younger male migrants set out walking Thursday from the southern town of Huixtla.
But about 1,000 migrants, mainly families with children, decided to wait in Huixtla to see if they could get some sort of temporary exit visa. The families were tired after walking some 25 miles since departing the city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, on Monday.
The goal of almost all the migrants is to reach the U.S. border. But none of the migrant caravans that have crossed Mexico starting in 2018 have ever walked all the way to the border, which is over 1,000 miles to the north.
05/26/22
Source: Mexico News Daily
The military now has full control of customs after the federal government’s publication of a new decree.
President López Obrador had already given control of most of the nation’s land and maritime customs offices to the army and navy but a presidential decree expands their powers.
The military now has exclusive responsibility for inspecting goods entering the country via land borders, ports and airports.
26/05/22
Source: AP NEWS
Authorities said Thursday that the death toll in a bus crash in northern Mexico has risen to seven.
All of the dead and the 24 injured were migrants. One of those killed was a pregnant woman, and two of the injured were minors.
No nationalities were immediately available for the seven dead, but of those who survived, 11 were from El Salvador, seven from Honduras and four from Cuba. Also injured were one Panamanian and one Mexican citizen.
Date: April 21, 2022
Source: U.S. News
MIAMI (AP) — For years after leaving Cuba, the mother of two tried to get her children and parents into the U.S. through legal channels.
Finally, she decided she wouldn’t wait any longer: She paid more than $40,000 dollars to someone to help them sneak in through Mexico.
“I said to myself, `Enough. I am going to risk everything,’” said the 30-year-old woman, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from U.S. authorities.
Mexico Institute 