The Associated Press

Sergio Franco clutched his baby girl after a nearly two-month journey from Ecuador said he was confident that he would prevail in his plea to find a safe haven in the United States. (AP video: Javier Arciga) DULZURA, Calif. (AP) — Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn’t too late. “I heard that they were going to do it or were about to do it,” Castillo, 35, said Wednesday as she and her son were escorted to a Border Patrol van with about two dozen others from Brazil, Ecuador and her village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which she said she left because it was gripped by violence.  They had missed the deadline, and were now subject to the new deportation rule.

Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum

Border Report

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — “Here, again.” Yeneska García’s face crumbled as she said it, and she pressed her head into her hands. Since fleeing crisis in Venezuela in January, the 23-year-old had trekked through the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama, narrowly survived being kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and waited months for an asylum appointment with […]

Wearing out migrants is Mexico’s tactic to cut flow to the US

Business Insider

Thousands of Chinese migrants trekked last year to the US border after arriving in Ecuador, which is cutting their visa-free access.

The thousands of Chinese migrants headed to the US-Mexico border just lost their key entry point to America

Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Countries including Venezuela and Cuba accept migrants deported by U.S. officials from Mexico, the Mexican president said on Thursday, but he added that he would prefer that Washington enter into direct deportation agreements with those nations.

Mexican president says Venezuela, Cuba accept deported migrants from Mexico

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Migrants from around the world traverse California desert to reach US

Arizona State

Syracuse, NY

New York Post

The 21-year-old woman who was allegedly suffocated and killed by an illegal migrant on her birthday in Syracuse fled abuse by her lover in Ecuador, The Post can reveal.

Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, who is also from Ecuador, has been charged with killing Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza, after arranging to meet the victim for her birthday at his Airbnb in Syracuse on June 18, the Post-Standard reported. 



Toaquiza crossed the southern border illegally into Lukeville, Arizona, on June 19, 2023, Homeland Security sources told The Post.

While in Border Patrol custody, she shared that she feared returning to Ecuador because she was being threatened by a past...

21-year-old allegedly suffocated by illegal migrant in Syracuse fled Ecuador because of lover’s abuse: sources

SAN ANTONIO (NewsNation) — Mexican cartels are offering so-called “VIP” packages for migrants to enter the U.S., charging up to $15,000 to help them cross the southern border via underground tunnels. These VIP packages include comprehensive services for migrants to cross the border. What service do VIP...

Mexican cartels offer ‘VIP’ border crossing packages to migrants

The Guardian

El Paso mayor says order ‘will save lives’ but advocates express concern over heat and exploitation by criminals

‘People will die’: Biden’s border order will worsen migrants’ risks, experts say

El Paso, TX

Mexican cartels are now offering VIP “travel agency” packages worth as much as $15,000 to help illegal immigrants sneak into the United States via a stream of underground tunnels. 

The so-called VIP smuggling has become so lucrative that the cartels are now focusing roughly 70% of their criminal activity on getting migrants across the US-Mexico border — instead of their usual drug trafficking, USA Today reported.

The La Linea cartel, for example, has allegedly been shepherding roughly 1,000 VIP migrants from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas every month, a senior Mexican official told the outlet. 



“Criminals have shifted from...

Mexican cartels offering $15K VIP ‘travel agency’ packages to help illegal immigrants sneak into US

EUGENE, Ore. -- Sha'Carri Richardson got passed on the outside down the stretch and finished fourth in the 200-meter final at U.S. track trials Saturday, meaning she'll only have one chance for an individual Olympic gold medal next month in Paris. Gabby Thomas won the race in 21.81 seconds for...

Sha'Carri Richardson finishes 4th, won't have spot in 200 meters at Olympics

Vermont State

(The Center Square) – Illegal border crossings at the northern border continue to break records, according to the latest data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A record-breaking 18,644, were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. at the northern border in May, the highest total for the month of May in recorded history.

Illegal border crossings at northern border continue to break records

Hawaii State

Fernandina Beach, FL

ABC News

A man was fishing in Florida when a shark attacked him, severely injuring his arm, officials said.

Shark attacks man while he's fishing in Florida

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J. Souza

An 81-year-old foreign passenger was found dead in her cabin onboard a Maltese-flagged cruise ship on Saturday afternoon, according to a statement from the Greek Coast Guard. A Greek news outlet reported that the incident occurred while the vessel was docked at the picturesque Port of Mykonos, a popular tourist destination in the Aegean Sea.

Cruise Ship Passenger Found Dead in Cabin, Coast Guard Reports

California State

Latin Times

As U.S. authorities continue to enforce the Biden administration's crackdown on asylum-seeking, rejecting practically all migrants while the daily amount of border apprehensions surpass the 2,500 mark, shelters on Mexico's side of the border are seeing varying scenarios. According to The Associated Press, while some south of Texas and California...

Some shelters in Mexico's side of the border are becoming overwhelmed as rejection of migrants rises

WashingtonExaminer

Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang from Venezuela that is said to be as serious a threat as the Salvadoran gang MS-13, is quietly operating in unsuspected neighborhoods and communities across the country. The transnational corporation-size criminal group took advantage of the ongoing border crisis and has been able to push members into the United […]

Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua used border chaos to infiltrate US

Charlotte, NC

Ashlee Stallings, 36, allegedly left her daughter in the vehicle "in hot weather conditions" and the 8-year-old suffered a fatal medical emergency, police said.

8-year-old dies after mom allegedly left her in car during high heat to go to work

Mexican, Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants have been affected the most by the the Biden administration's decision to heavily crack down on asylum-seeking if illegal crossings exceed a certain threshold. That's the conclusion of an investigative article published in Telemundo, which cites several sources ranging from migrants to shelter...

Mexicans, Cubans and Venezuelans among nationals most affected by Biden's border asylum restrictions

Utica, NY

Three Utica, New York, police officers are under investigation after one shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who allegedly pointed a replica handgun, investigators said.

State AG probing police shooting of teen who allegedly wielded replica gun

The Independent

 Ana Ruiz was dismayed seeing migrants from some countries released in the United States with orders to appear in immigration court while she and other Mexicans were deported on a one-hour bus ride to the nearest border crossing.“They're giving priority to other countries,” Ruiz, 35, after a tearful phone call to family in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas at the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter. The shelter's director says it is receiving about 100 deportees a day, more than double what it saw before President Joe Biden issued an executive order that suspends asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border...

Biden's asylum halt is falling hardest on Mexicans and other nationalities Mexico will take

The border has become impossible to ignore amid record numbers of migrants crossing into the US from Mexico and a bitter political storm over what to do with them.

How the US-Mexico border brought trouble to the Tohono O’odham Nation

NewsBreak

Panama’s next president wants a deal with US on deporting migrants who cross the perilous Darien Gap

LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama -- Panama's President-elect José Raúl Mulino announced on Friday that he wants an agreement with the United States on deporting migrants who cross...

Panama’s next president wants a deal with US on deporting migrants who cross the perilous Darien Gap

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