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As Pro-Trump Caravans Hit Roads Across U.S., Organizers Are Upbeat Despite Tensions

3:00pm September 24, 2020

by Joel Rose

Car and truck convoys of Trump supporters rolled through Michigan, New York and North Carolina last week. These mobile rallies continued even after one turned deadly in Portland, Ore., last month.

Karen Paz hugs her daughter, Liliana Saray, 9. They are from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. "I feel free; I feel different," Paz said. "I don't have someone who imposes his views and his ways on me. I am not scared someone will come and attack me, like I used

World News

'I'm A Survivor Of Violence': Portraits Of Women Waiting In Mexico For U.S. Asylum

5:51pm January 16, 2019

by Federica Valabrega

Photographer Federica Valabrega photographed Central American women who fled domestic violence and joined a migrant caravan to seek asylum in the U.S.

Honduran migrants wait in line to cross over the border checkpoint into Guatemala in Agua Caliente, Honduras. A new caravan of at least several hundred Hondurans has set off toward the United States on foot or in vehicles. Some have already crossed into G

Honduran Caravan Crosses Guatemala, Traveling Toward U.S.

10:22am January 16, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The caravan, which could consist of up to 2,000 migrants, began its journey from Honduras on Monday. The migrants have already become symbols in the ongoing battle over border security.

Migrants seeking an asylum appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers wait at El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana.

A Waiting Game For Immigrants And Border Agents On Both Sides Of The Wall

11:18am January 14, 2019

by John Burnett

While Border Patrol agents build up fences in San Diego to guard against a national security threat, Central American migrants waiting in Tijuana consider whether the journey was worth the effort.

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Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico.

U.S. Agents Fire Tear Gas At Migrants Trying To Cross Mexico Border

1:34pm January 02, 2019

by Daniella Cheslow

U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities say they fired tear gas to deter about 150 Central American migrants from climbing over or under the U.S.-Mexico border fence into California.

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Cristian Aguilar carries his half-brother Jaden's toy car into the restaurant Honduras 504, owned by his father José Aguilar. Cooking up traditional food, it has served the Honduran diaspora community in Tijuana since 2015.

World News

A Honduran Restaurant Hands Out Hot Comfort Food For The Migrant Caravan In Tijuana

2:50pm December 19, 2018

by Tomás Ayuso

When José Aguilar, a Honduran living in the Mexican border city who runs the restaurant Honduras 504, heard a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants was coming, he knew he had to do something to help.

A group of mostly LGBT Central American migrants are the first to reach northern Mexico. On Sunday about 80 of them arrived in Tijuana. They plan to apply for asylum as early as Thursday.

LGBT Splinter Group From Migrant Caravan Is The 1st To Arrive In Tijuana

8:30pm November 13, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

About 80 mostly LGBT migrants reached the border city south of San Diego on Sunday. They plan to seek political asylum as early as Thursday, arriving weeks ahead of thousands en route to the U.S.

Members of the 89th Military Police and 541st Engineering Company, 19th Engineering Battalion at Fort Knox, Ky., are briefed upon arrival Wednesday at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. They are among some 7,000 troops deploying to the U.S.-Mexican border.

National

5 Questions About Rocks And Guns

6:26pm November 02, 2018

by David Welna

Asked on Thursday if active duty soldiers being sent to the border with Mexico would fire on migrants who throw rocks, Trump said he hoped not. On Friday, he said soldiers would arrest them instead.

Central American migrants, part of a caravan trying to reach the U.S., cross from Guatemala into a Mexican border and customs facility in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, on Wednesday.

National

Defense Secretary Mattis Will Send Some 800 U.S. Troops To Border With Mexico

10:19pm October 25, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The Department of Homeland Security requested the troops. President Trump says he is intent on stopping any people in a migrant caravan from crossing the U.S. border.

Migrants heading toward the U.S. carry Honduran and Guatemalan national flags in Guatemala on Monday. President Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador for failing to stop the caravan's journey.

Food, Peace Building, Legal Aid: What Trump Would Cut From Central America

7:41pm October 24, 2018

by Sean McMinn

As thousands of migrants move toward the U.S., these are the programs President Trump is threatening to cut in retaliation.