matamoros

The U.S. and Mexico are working together to find 4 Americans who were kidnapped

7:03pm March 06, 2023

by Vanessa Romo

The abduction took place on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of the Americans and the arrests of those involved.

Migrant parents in the tent camps in Matamoros, Mexico, are sending their kids across the border and taking advantage of the rule that unaccompanied children can't be returned to Mexico. Here, Alexis Martinez holds a cellphone photo of his 7-year-old son

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'I Want To Be Sure My Son Is Safe': Asylum-Seekers Send Children Across Border Alone

9:28pm November 27, 2019

by John Burnett

Some migrant parents who were told to wait in Mexico under President Trump's asylum policies are sending their children, unaccompanied, across the bridge to surrender to U.S. agents.

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Drying migrants clothes in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. More than 1,500 asylum-seekers are living in the tent encampment.

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Mexican Official Tries To Move Asylum-Seekers Stuck In Tent Camps

8:12am November 09, 2019

by Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

At one point a child welfare official threatened to take custody of the kids and families refused to let them go. "I told them I couldn't, that I wouldn't let my kid go," one woman said.

William Linares, a 5-year-old from Honduras, plays in an encampment where he is living near the international bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, on April 30. The boy is traveling with his mother, Suanny Gomez, and seeking asylum in the United States.

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As The Line Into America Slows, Communities Form, And Wait, On The Mexican Side

6:43pm June 03, 2019

by John Burnett

U.S. border officials strictly limit the number of asylum seekers they allow to legally cross ports of entry every day, creating an enormous backlog of migrants in places like Matamoros.

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