Mexico state plagued by violence: 682 killed

  Mexico’s National Public Safety Secretariat registered 682 homicides in Veracruz from January through March, along with 122 kidnappings. Veracruz, with its 400 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the country’s most important areas for importing and exporting goods but […]

A militia group is detaining migrants

  The Times reported that a spokesman for the United Constitutional Patriots militia group said their actions were legal, “comparing the detention of the migrants to ‘a verbal citizen’s arrest.’” But videos showing migrants held by the group drew swift condemnation from the American Civil […]

Officials Move Migrants From Underpass… To Parking Lot Tents

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Sunday (March 31) that it would move Central American immigrants from a makeshift holding area surrounded by razor wire under a bridge in El Paso, Texas, to a “safer, more accommodating location,” as previously reported by Colorlines. As it turns out, that “safer” […]

Texas shelters along the southern border scramble to house migrants

  “The numbers are very high and continue to sustain themselves,” said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. The organization is currently working out of two locations and actively working with city officials to identify a centralized location […]