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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday bowed to pressure from President Donald Trump’s Republicans as Congress approved $4.6 billion in emergency aid to ease a swelling migrant crisis on the nation’s southern border. One day after the Senate passed the administration-backed measure, the House of Representatives followed suit with a bipartisan vote of 305 to 102 that sends the bill to the president’s desk. The emergency money would […]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — The bulk of the migrant caravan crossing Mexico began arriving Thursday at the US border, as around 800 Central Americans reached the city of Tijuana aboard 22 buses after more than a month on the road. “We’ve finally reached Tijuana. I can’t wait to see the border. It’s been a never-ending journey, but God brought us here,” said Carmen Soto, a Honduran migrant traveling with her two young children. More than […]
by Said Betanzos with Javier Tovar in Los Angeles Agence France Presse TIJUANA, Mexico— Yolany Reyes is adamant about one thing: no one is going to separate her from her three-year-old son. “It would be like taking away part of me,” said the 26-year-old Honduran. Reyes and her child have traveled across Mexico by train, bus and on foot with a migrant caravan, and now she’s at the US border hoping to gain asylum. Along with 150 other […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico’s president hit back Sunday at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that if elected, he would make Mexico build a wall along its US border. The bombastic billionaire has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and insulted Mexican immigrants by calling them rapists, criminals and drug dealers. As his party’s presumptive presidential candidate, Trump is now eyeing a clash in the November election with his Democratic rival Hillary […]
