Arrested Migrants Repatriated Deep Into Mexico
In 2004, 1.1 million undocumented workers were apprehended at the US-Mexico border, according to researchers at UC Davis. This year the number is likely to be at least the same or possibly even higher. Once apprehended, migrants are deported to Mexico, typically near the border.
In an effort to discourage these people from crossing again, the US and Mexican governments recently began a new program which repatriates apprehended migrants deep into Mexican territory, near the towns where they came from.
Those apprehended and wishing to participate in the new program are given a one-way plane ticket to a major Mexican city and a bus voucher to their hometown. The idea is to ease their repatriation and also to drive up the cost of getting back to the border and re-attempting the crossing.
The program is the latest of the efforts to control illegal immigration. It’s strictly voluntary because Mexican law guarantees its citizens freedom of movement within its borders.
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U.S. flights to Mexico fail to cut migrant deaths
A U.S. government program that returns illegal immigrants to Mexico by flying them deep into the country is ineffective at reducing the number of deaths in the Arizona desert, analysts said on Wednesday.
The Interior Repatriation Program of daily charter flights from Tucson to Mexico City and Guadalajara was implemented in 2004 to cut deaths in the summer months.
Instead of dropping the migrants near the border as is usually done, the program flies them hundreds of miles inside Mexico. The idea was to deter migrants from immediately reattempting to cross the border via
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican government has condemned the killing of a second undocumented migrant by U.S. police officers, Presidential Spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Tuesday.
"We regret and condemn the killing of our countryman," Aguilar said, referring to Ismael Segura who was fatally shot by security agents in Texas on Saturday as he tried to flee in his car.
"We assume that these are isolated events... but we can see that there is a state of violence on the frontier against migrants," the presidential spokesman said.
91 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Mexico
Mexican authorities had arrested 91 illegal immigrants including 13 children, the government said on Sunday.
The National Immigration Service said it had arrested 13 children from El Salvador and Honduras in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo.
They were separately found in a freight train wagon and at the citys bus station. The children, who were between two and 12 years old, were traveling in small family groups.
Some 1,800 illegal immigrants, most of them from Central America, have been arrested in the the northern Mexican state of Coahuila since the beginning of this
3 arrested in Mexico rape, killing of teen
Three men have been arrested in the Christmas Eve rape and slaying of a 17-year-old girl in this violent city on Mexico's northern border, authorities said Thursday.
According to statements from two of the suspects, the three men were drinking with Claudia Flores Javier in her home in the early hours of Dec. 24 when one of them proposed having sex with her. She refused before the three raped her, said Claudia Elena Banuelos, spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office.
One of the men responded to Flores' resistance by hitting her several times on
Accused Police Impersonator Arrested In Mexico
A San Antonio man who fled to Mexico after being convicted and sentenced on money laundering and wire fraud charges was arrested last week.
The Texas Attorney General's office said that Raymond D. Abreu Jr., 35, was arrested in Laredo on Sept. 21. after undercover officers lured Abreu to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where he was told that $57,000 in extortion money was waiting for him.
Abreu fled the country four years ago after being sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for impersonating a San Antonio police officer and demanded bribes from operators of illegal eight-liner games.
He
Most migrants had jobs in Mexico, survey finds
A new survey of migrant Mexicans shatters the myth they are largely unemployed farmworkers who struggle to pick up jobs on street corners.
Only 5 percent of the most recent migrants were unemployed before they crossed the border, and only an equal percentage remained unemployed within six months of crossing, the survey found.
Newer migrants were just as likely to have worked in construction zones and hotels than in the fields, the survey found.
The findings released today by the Pew Hispanic Center based on questionnaires in Spanish filled out by 4,836 persons
4 arrested in Mexico on child selling charges
Four people - including a U.S. citizen and a legal American permanent resident - have been arrested in this border city and charged with child selling after a couple offered $5,000 to a father in exchange for his 3-year-old son, police said Saturday.
Jose Luis Garcia told authorities he was walking with his son on Octava street in Tijuana on Friday when he was approached by a couple who said they wanted to purchase the youngster, who would then be sent to the United States by a couple who ran a child-selling
Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of rapes
Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Ulises Ernesto Mijangos (mee-HAN'-goes) was arrested Tuesday in Chihuahua -- the capital city of the state of the same name. State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez says Mijangos was initial charged in a break-in but was later identified as a sex-crimes suspect by state prosecutors.
Chihuahua authorities are seeking the man responsible for at least two rapes since 2003 in the Chihuahua's capital and seven
Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of rapes
Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Ulises Ernesto Mijangos (mee-HAN'-goes) was arrested Tuesday in Chihuahua -- the capital city of the state of the same name. State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez says Mijangos was initial charged in a break-in but was later identified as a sex-crimes suspect by state prosecutors.
Chihuahua authorities are seeking the man responsible for at least two rapes since 2003 in the Chihuahua's capital and seven
Mexico Readies First-Ever Absentee Ballot
Mexico Launches Effort to Register Migrants for First-Ever Absentee Balloting
A small army of electoral workers carrying absentee ballot registration forms was deployed Wednesday in airports, land crossings and customs checkpoints along Mexico's border with the United States.
Their mission is to get the thousands of migrants returning home for the holidays to register for the nation's first absentee ballot. Votes from millions of Mexicans living abroad, mostly in the United States, could swing July's presidential election.
Some Mexican migrants in the United States, however, complain a lack of information has made registration confusing and difficult. Many
