Migrants

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY and LONDON) — Hundreds of migrants from Central and South America were found “crowded and dehydrated” in the back of a tractor-trailer in southeastern Mexico on Thursday, authorities said. The discovery was made at dawn after authorities stopped the driver of the trailer at a toll booth in between the cities […]

Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico) — Nine migrants were found Tuesday by Mexican authorities after a group was kidnapped on its way to the U.S.-Mexico border. A bus holding 50 migrants left Tapachula, Chiapas, on Sunday and disappeared the following day near Matehuala, San Luis Potosí. The migrants had permission to […]

Mireya Villarreal/Jim Scholz/ABC News (MATAMOROS, Mexico) — Most U.S. border towns, from Texas to California, thrive on a healthy relationship with their Mexican counterparts. Goods and labor flow back and forth, helping tourism and the economy on both sides. But in the last decade, those relationships have been strained and tensions have grown. The Migrant Protection […]