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US judge says conditions in overcrowded border holding cells violate Constitution
Feb 20, 2020 08:20A US judge has ruled in favor of refugees, held in overcrowded border detention centers under inhumane conditions, banning authorities from holding asylum seekers for more than 48 hours in a facility in the state of Arizona.
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Trump administration taking $3.8 billion more from military for Mexico border wall
Feb 14, 2020 04:19The US Defense Department sent Congress a request to shift nearly $4 billion from the military budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico, a central promise of President Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House four years ago and bid this year for a second term.
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Migrants raped and trafficked as US and Mexico tighten borders: Charity
Feb 12, 2020 10:31Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
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Native American burial sites being destroyed for Trump border wall
Feb 11, 2020 09:08A sacred Native American burial site in the US state of Arizona has been destroyed by a construction company building President Donald Trump's controversial wall on the US-Mexico border.
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Mexico deports hundreds of migrants to Honduras
Jan 30, 2020 08:15Mexico's government has returned hundreds of Hondurans back to their country after it largely halted a caravan of undocumented Central Americans migrants who waded across a river into Mexico.
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Mexico deports 2,300 US-bound Honduran refugees
Jan 28, 2020 08:12Mexican migration authorities say they have deported 2,300 Honduran refugees who crossed over from Guatemala with a caravan heading to the United States.
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Children go missing as US-bound refugees clash with Mexican forces
Jan 21, 2020 09:02Mexican forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American refugees as they tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States.
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HRW says ‘coup’ occurred in Bolivia
Jan 16, 2020 09:30Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the series of developments that led to the resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales constituted a coup, raising the alarm about human rights abuses by the country’s military at the time.
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Mexico's prison security challenged as 16 inmates die in latest fight
Jan 01, 2020 13:30Sixteen inmates were killed and five were wounded in a prison fight in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country's troubled penal system since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took power.
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Mexico says Bolivian regime harassing diplomatic personnel after granting of asylum to Morales
Dec 26, 2019 08:13Mexico says the Bolivian regime is “harassing” and “intimidating” its diplomatic personnel in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, in what seems to be retribution for the granting of asylum by Mexico to former Bolivian president Evo Morales.