Tag: Mexico

Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Immigration crisis is bordering on madness

Thomas Sowell · July 21, 2014 7:28 pm

In this Saturday, July 12, 2014 photo, shoes are seen beside the train tracks in Ixtepec, Mexico. Migrants pay thousands of dollars per person for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks that in turn pays off government officials, gangs operating on trains and drug cartels controlling the routes north. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrant smuggler costs for crossing Mexico to US

The Associated Press · July 21, 2014 6:11 pm

Boys watch television in their room at The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Owner of raided Mexico shelter freed, no charges

Maria Verza · July 20, 2014 11:07 pm

A boy peers out through the door of a cell-like room inside The Great Family group home in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Owner of raided Mexico child shelter was admired

Olga Rodriguez · July 19, 2014 10:06 pm

Zogby Report Card: Pollster urges public to let Obama ‘do his job,’ avoid ‘potshots’

Paul Bedard · July 19, 2014 9:00 am

Boys and young men line up to receive a meal provided by the government, at The Great Family group home in Zamora, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat and raped residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Some defend founder of Mexican shelter

Olga Rodriguez · July 17, 2014 11:08 pm

VIDEO: Immigration deal may hang on 2008 law

Steve Doty · July 17, 2014 5:35 pm

Relatives waiting to be reunited with their children stand behind a police cordon outside The Great Family group home, in Zamora, Michoacan State, Mexico, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Mexican prosecutors said Wednesday that victims told harrowing tales of sexual abuse, beatings, hunger and filth, in a once well-regarded group home where authorities freed hundreds of adults and children in a raid. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico: Sex abuse at group home house of horror

Olga Rodriguez · July 17, 2014 3:56 am

Relatives carry to a local cemetery, the coffin containing the remains of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, in San Jose Las Flores, Guatemala, Saturday (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Uncle Sam’s unfenced swimming pool

Terence Jeffrey · July 16, 2014 3:15 pm

In this Friday, July 11, 2014 photo, a tricycle rides on the bridge that connects Tecun Uman, Guatemala, with Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. At the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, raft operators ferry constant streams of Guatemalans and other Central Americans across the broad Suchiate River in improvised rafts made of truck inner tubes lashed to wooden boards, in plain view of Mexican police on the shore and immigration agents posted on a bridge over the river that links the two countries. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico southern border control so far just talk

E. EDUARDO CASTILLOMARK STEVENSON · July 16, 2014 4:05 am

In this Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, people attempting to immigrate illegally are initially processed at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

The border crisis is a challenge and an opportunity

james-purcell, arthur-dewey · July 15, 2014 7:20 pm

A child on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence looks into Arizona during a special 'Mass on the Border' on April 1, 2014 in Nogales, Ariz. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Republicans push Obama to secure US-Mexico border

Zack Colman · July 13, 2014 2:50 pm