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Texas Works Around Biden to Get Border Security Agreements With Three Mexican States

Bob Dane — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:07:56 +0000

Three Mexican governors have signed agreements to bolster border security in exchange for Texas ramping down truck inspections. Read more at ImmigrationReform.com

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U.S. and Mexico Can Turn Back Next Haitian Wave

Bob Dane — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:45:20 +0000

Arrests of Haitian migrants at America’s southern border plummeted from 17,600 in September to 1,000 in November. Whether that’s an enduring trend or a temporary lull will depend largely on the Biden administration and Mexico. In the wake of the summer surge at Del Rio, Texas, the U.S. flew 7,915 Haitians back to their country. The [...]

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Mexico Received $50 Billion in Remittances from the United States – Why Don’t We Tax It?

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:45:37 +0000

Mexicans living in the United States are on pace to send more than $50 billion in remittances to people still living in Mexico, according to data from the World Bank and Bank of Mexico. Border Report noted that this is a record amount of money sent back to Mexico, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and [...]

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Mexico is Wrong: Increasing Foreign Aid to Central America Will Not Stem Migration Flows

Matthew Tragesser — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:22:38 +0000

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard believes that the United States needs to invest more heavily in Central America in order to stem migration flows in the region. In an interview with a Mexican radio station, the foreign minister argued that “there needs to be bigger investment from the United States in Central America than has [...]

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Mexico’s Asylum Requests in Five Months Surpass All of 2020

Jason Pena — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 20:15:45 +0000

Mexico’s Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar) released data on the number of asylum applications made so far in 2021. The data show that between January and May, 41,195 applications for asylum were filed in Mexico. This figure is more than the total of asylum requests made in the entirety of 2020, which concluded with 41,179. Moreover, compared [...]

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You Know It’s Bad When the President of Mexico is Telling You to Cool It

Ira Mehlman — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:19:07 +0000

The surge of migrants heading to the U.S. border has gotten so overwhelming that the president has finally called for measures to get it under control. Not the president of the United States – rather it is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who is alarmed at the chaos playing out on the border between [...]

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