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by Valentin Diaz Agence France Presse Mexico City, Mexico (AFP) A photo posted to TikTok shows a group of people dressed in camouflage, hoping to blend into the shadowy vegetation dotting the nighttime landscape of the Mexican desert. The picture was not uploaded by social media influencers on an adventurous vacation — it’s an advertisement by people smugglers. Technology-savvy criminals using the popular video-sharing app are posing a growing challenge to Mexican and US authorities […]
McAllen, United States | AFP | A Latina Republican candidate backed by former president Donald Trump won her congressional race Tuesday, US media projected, wresting a Texas district on the border with Mexico from Democratic control. Monica De La Cruz, a supporter of some the former president’s controversial immigration policies, said in a victory speech that she was “incredibly honored, humbled, and blessed by tonight’s win.” De La Cruz defeated Democratic challenger Michelle Vallejo in […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Jose Galeano is on the verge of embarking on the most important and frightening journey of his life. He took out a loan secured against his house and paid people smugglers to help him begin an odyssey he hopes will end in the United States. Having worked as a farmhand, a gardener, and a laborer, this 35-year-old former veterinary medicine graduate is joining the thousands of Nicaraguans fleeing the second poorest […]
Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Two Russians who landed in a remote part of rural Alaska are seeking asylum in the United States, politicians in the far northern state said Thursday. The pair landed just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an unpopular mobilization of citizens in a bid to turn the tide on his faltering invasion of Ukraine. “Two Russian nationals landed at a beach near Gambell, located on the […]
by Gerard Martinez Agence France-Presse SAN ANTONIO, United States (AFP) — The death toll of undocumented migrants who were abandoned in a scorching-hot trailer in Texas rose to 51 Tuesday, as President Joe Biden blamed “criminal” professional smugglers for the tragedy. Rebeca Clay-Flores, a Bexar County official, reported the new tally of “39 men and 12 women” dead, following the Monday discovery of the tractor-trailer on an isolated road in her district. She did […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a tractor-trailer that was abandoned on the side of a road in San Antonio, in central Texas, authorities said. The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years — and came five years after a similar deadly incident in the same city, a few hours from the Mexican border. “At […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Shaken by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland is rushing to beef up security on its border with Russia in order to protect itself from hybrid threats, the interior ministry said Friday. Fearing that Moscow could use migrants to exert political pressure, Helsinki plans legislative amendments that would facilitate the construction of sturdier fences on its 1,300-kilometre (800-mile) eastern border with Russia. “The aim of the proposed law is to improve […]
by Gabriela Coutiño / Amaranta Marentes Agence France-Presse HUIXTLA, Mexico (AFP) — Thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants began receiving temporary Mexican visas Wednesday as they prepared to continue their trek toward the United States. The migrants had set up a temporary camp on a basketball court in the southern Mexican town of Huixtla, some 40 kilometers from where they began their journey on Monday close to the Guatemala border. Immigration authorities in Huixtla began slowly […]
by Paula Ramon Agence France-Presse YUMA, United States (AFP) — When a young Colombian man and his family arrived at the US border early one morning, they helped themselves to bananas and water, then sat down in the shade and waited for American patrol officers. Like dozens of others who enter the United States every day through this gap in the fence, they are not trying sneak into the country unnoticed. “We don’t want to cross […]
At least 11 people have died after their boat, carrying an unknown number of people, overturned off the coast of Puerto Rico, the US Coast Guard said Thursday. “As of 6 PM Thursday (2200 GMT), responding partner agency units have rescued 31 survivors, 11 female and 20 male. 11 deceased have been recovered,” said the Coast Guard in a tweet. A spokesperson for the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told AFP that the shipwreck […]
by Miodrag SOVILJ Agence France-Presse BELGRADE, Serbia (AFP) – As free speech was curtailed, her friends imprisoned and the Russian economy tanked in the days after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Marina packed her bags and fled Moscow. But more than a thousand miles away in her new home in Serbia, the 41-year-old former travel agent has found herself unable to escape the long arm of Russian propaganda in Belgrade where the Kremlin’s […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The US Coast Guard launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a “suspected human smuggling venture,” it said Tuesday. The Coast Guard in Miami said it had received a report “from a good Samaritan” who rescued a man “clinging to a capsized vessel approximately 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet.” The survivor said the boat had left Bimini […]
