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Virus Means Mexican Emigrants Send Fewer Dollars to Hometown
For as long as Mexicans have gone north to find work, money has gone in the opposite direction.
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‘You Mexicans, Get Out': Hammer-Wielding Woman Accused of Racist Rant Against Latina Doctor, Husband
A woman in Texas is facing charges after being seen using a hammer to threaten a Latina doctor and her husband whom she mistakenly referred to being Mexican during a profanity-laced rant in Houston.
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Trump Policy Puts Migrants in Danger in Mexico, Advocates Say
Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting released from the El Paso Processing Center after weeks in detention. But that’s just a sliver of the story.
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Migrants Say They Face Danger Before Court in Texas Tents
Abel Oset was seized with panic. After an 11-country odyssey that began when he and his namesake son fled Cuba, and a brief moment on U.S. soil, he was crossing back into America. But he wasn’t sure he’d be able to stay. The two were going to plead their case in a court set up inside a tent in Laredo,...
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Trump Claims Mexican Women Being Raped in Record Numbers
President Trump on Thursday claimed women in an immigrant caravan are being raped in record numbers. The remark came during a West Virginia event that was supposed to focus on the new tax plan.
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Iowa Family Died of Gas Asphyxiation at Mexican Resort
Autopsies indicate an Iowa couple and their two children died from inhaling toxic gas at a rented condo on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, but there was no sign of foul play or suicide, Mexican authorities said Saturday. The prosecutors’ office in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo said that “the cause of death was asphyxiation from inhaling toxic gases.” It...
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Trump's Effort to Curb Immigration Could Hit Economy: Analysis
America’s 21st century job market increasingly demands high-tech skills and knowledge. Yet consider this: Nearly half the new jobs the government foresees emerging by 2026 will require only a high school diploma — or none at all. Those jobs share something else in common, too: Hundreds of thousands of them will likely be taken by low-skilled immigrants who are willing...