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Mexicans have made up a larger share of the migrants prosecuted for crossing the border illegally since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end family separations, a USA TODAY analysis of the nation's most active court for immigration prosecutions shows. The analysis also shows a shift away from prosecutions of migrants from the Central American countries that the Trump administration associates with the violent MS-13 gang.
The MS-13 gang made Jose Osmin Aparicio's life so miserable in his native El Salvador that he had no choice but to flee in the dead of night with his wife and four children, leaving behind all their belongings and paying a smuggler $8,000. Aparicio is undeterred by a new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions declaring that gang and domestic violence will generally cease to be grounds for asylum.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump lashed out in fury Monday over immigration, an outburst triggered by images of a "caravan" of hundreds of Central American migrants headed toward the US border. Central Americans taking part in a 'caravan' called "Migrant Viacrucis", wait in line to get a meal in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state, Mexico on April 2, 2018 For the second straight day, Trump took to Twitter to attack Mexico for allowing the 1,500-strong group to march unimpeded toward the United States, their daily progress mapped out by US media.
Former President Barack Obama speaks to journalists as he participates in his last news conference of the year at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2016. President Obama's foreign policy of appeasement won him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for merely being elected.
Mexico on Thursday expressed "worry and irritation" about U.S. policies to two of President Donald Trump's top envoys, giving a chilly reply to the new administration's hard line on immigration, trade and security. Comments by Trump about a "military operation" to deport criminals added to the tense atmosphere, and prompted a clarification from Homeland Security chief John Kelly, one of the U.S. officials visiting Mexico City.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is welcomed by U.S. ambassador Roberta Jacobson as he arrives at Benito Juarez international Airport in Mexico City, Mexico February 22, 2017. A bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to deport non-Mexican illegal migrants to Mexico that has enraged Mexicans will top the agenda when officials from both countries meet on Thursday amid a deepening rift between the two nations.
Two top Trump administration officials are heading to Mexico for talks with President Enrique PeA a Nieto and his cabinet primarily aimed at cooling tensions that threaten to derail trade and other agreements on counterterrorism efforts, drug trafficking and immigration. The visit by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly comes a month after a heated volley of tweets between President Trump and PeA a Nieto over who should pay for a wall on the U.S. border prompted the Mexican leader to cancel a visit to the White House.
One scheme to make Mexico 'pay for the wall' could wind up encouraging more undocumented migrants to come to America, a report obtained by The Daily Beast shows. If the Trump administration follows through on veiled hints that it's considering cutting foreign aid to Mexico, it could shut down a program that blocks hundreds of thousands of immigrants at Mexico's southern border--keeping them from eventually entering the United States.