Central American immigrants

Asylum seekers often lack basic services at migrant shelters 

Asylum seekers are quickly transported to the nearest border crossing and returned to Mexico without a chance to apply for asylum

Central American immigrants planned to start a hunger strike if they were not released 

The U.S. will use a health-focused statute to swiftly remove migrants or asylum seekers who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally as part of efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus

The Mexican government said that it has not received any formal proposal from U.S. officials

Central American immigrants are no longer seeing Mexico just as a transit country but a destination where they can "have a better future"

Due to the increase of crimes against Central Americans, immigrants are forced to find new routes to cross the Mexican state of Oaxaca

Under U.S. law, immigrants are guaranteed access to a lawyer, even after they have been given a deportation order.

Some young migrants have been placed in homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved, or forced to work for little or no pay, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The Obama administration arrested more than 120 immigrants during two days of raids targeting Central American families who came to the country illegally since 2014.