Category: Mexico

Mexico OKs Trump trademarks for hotels and tourism industry

In this Feb. 19, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in North Charleston, S.C. Then-candidate Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: “We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work,” he said. “We get nothing.”

‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ – How Mexican cartels…

‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ – How Mexican cartels will subvert and avoid Trump’s border wall An agent from the San Diego Tunnel Task Force lowers himself into the passageway of a tunnel found under the US-Mexico border in San Diego, November 26, 2010. “We will build a great wall along the southern border,” President Donald Trump said this summer, months prior to his election.

Mexico prepares to absorb a wave of deportees in the Trump era – Sat, 04 Mar 2017 PST

The deportees stepped off their flight from El Paso looking bewildered – 135 men who had left families and jobs behind after being swept up in the Trump administration’s mounting effort to send millions of undocumented immigrants back to their economically fraught homeland. As they filed into Mexico City International Airport last week, government employees handed them free ham-and-cheese sandwiches, Mexican ID cards and information directing them to social services in the capital.

Mexican sewage spill flares US noses and tempers

Coronado and Imperial Beach waters remain closed to swimmers and surfers Wednesday after more than 140 million gallons of… . A sign warns of sewage contaminated ocean waters on a beach in front of the iconic Hotel del Coronado on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Coronado, Calif.

US, Mexico at odds over deportation as top officials meet

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, before his departure to Mexico. President Donald Trump is sending his Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made all the more challenging by the actual fence he wants to build on the southern border.

Mexico bristles at ‘hostile’ Trump deportation rules

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray addresses the audience during a meeting between Mexico and the United Nations on human rights in Mexico City, Mexico February 22, 2017. Photo: Reuters Mexico reacted with anger on Wednesday to what one official called “hostile” new US immigration guidelines hours before senior Trump administration envoys began arriving in Mexico City for talks on the volatile issue.

Hundreds Form ‘Human Wall’ in Mexico to Protest Trump

The demonstrators held up flowers and colored flags reading the “Peace” and waved to residents of the neighboring town of El Paso, Texas. Hundreds of people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico formed a “human wall” at the edge of the Rio Grande on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.

John Kelly says San Ysidro tour not about ‘Draconian moves’

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly promised “no Draconian moves” while attempting to define so-called sanctuary cities and praised law enforcement officials during a tour of the San Ysidro port of entry Friday. Kelly toured the security operations at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing, the busiest land border crossing in the world, where he also spoke with California state and federal law enforcement agencies about improving border security.

Arizona mother deported to Mexico in immigration action

An Arizona mother of two who lived in the United States for more than 20 years was deported to Mexico on Thursday, becoming one of the first to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants in the United States, her attorney and family said. Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, 36, was taken to Nogales, Mexico, on Thursday morning by U.S. immigration staff, her attorney Ray Ybarra-Maldonado told a news conference.

Analysis: U.S.-Mexican border wall not guaranteed to reduce illegal immigration

U.S. President Donald Trump is continuing his plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border in a bid to stem illegal immigration, but experts said whether the wall will work remains an open question. During his campaign, Trump made border security one of his main platforms, repeatedly promising to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border to stop the flood of illegal migrants who head into the U.S. every day.

Cubans Stranded In Mexico Say Return To The Island Is Not An Option

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Feb 2 –Scores of Cubans meet every day at the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge in Nuevo Laredo on the US border after an odyssey through 10 countries, never knowing if they would achieve their dream of entering the United States, but with the conviction that returning to the island is “not an option.” More groups of Cubans kept arriving over the weekend until their number now tops 400.

Shares of materials companies up on Trump wall, pipeline plans

File Photo: A general view shows a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, November 9, 2016. Shares of U.S. companies seen benefiting from U.S. President Trump’s plans to push ahead with a border wall with Mexico and his approval of key energy pipeline expansion projects surged higher on Wednesday.

Trump moves to pull US out of Pacific-Rim trade deal

President Donald Trump moved to pull the United States out of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact Monday, dealing a quick blow to Barack Obama’s legacy as the new chief executive began fulfilling campaign promises in his first full week in office. “Great thing for the American worker that we just did,” Trump said in brief remarks as he signed a notice in the Oval Office.

Citizen sleuths’ new clue in aviation mystery

But even after the FBI shut the book on the mysterious case of DB Cooper, armchair detectives have refused to give up the search for answers. They’ve continued to investigate who this well-dressed businessman was, why he hijacked a US domestic flight 45 years ago, and how he then disappeared without a trace.

Mexico deports 91 Cubans after U.S. ends ‘wet foot, dry foot’

Mexico’s government has deported 91 Cubans about a week after the United States ended a so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy that granted residency to almost every Cuban who reached U.S. soil, Mexican officials said on Friday. The repeal of the longstanding policy last Thursday by former U.S. President Barack Obama left hundreds of Cubans who were seeking a new life stranded in Mexico and Central America countries.

President Obama Opens Up About Sasha and Malia’s Time in the White House

One of the victims from Friday’s shooting attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was a doting great-grandmother active in h… — The man suspected of shooting a U.S. consulate officer outside the consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, has been captured and is from the United States, Mexican off… The American Soybean Association Awards Banquet is an annual event that brings together state affiliates and ASA members from across the country to recognize and celebra… Amherst Wrestling Invite Results 1-7 1. Amherst 202.0 2. Plainview 119.5 3. South Loup 92.0 4. Cambridge 77.0 5. Shelton-Kenesaw 74.0 6. Aurora JV 63.0 7. Arcadia/Loup … Cal fired Sonny Dykes, the school’s head football coach, after four seasons on Sunday.

President Obama Opens Up About Sasha and Malia’s Time in the White House

One of the victims from Friday’s shooting attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was a doting great-grandmother active in h… — The man suspected of shooting a U.S. consulate officer outside the consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, has been captured and is from the United States, Mexican off… The American Soybean Association Awards Banquet is an annual event that brings together state affiliates and ASA members from across the country to recognize and celebra… Amherst Wrestling Invite Results 1-7 1. Amherst 202.0 2. Plainview 119.5 3. South Loup 92.0 4. Cambridge 77.0 5. Shelton-Kenesaw 74.0 6. Aurora JV 63.0 7. Arcadia/Loup … Cal fired Sonny Dykes, the school’s head football coach, after four seasons on Sunday.

President Obama Opens Up About Sasha and Malia’s Time in the White House

One of the victims from Friday’s shooting attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was a doting great-grandmother active in h… — The man suspected of shooting a U.S. consulate officer outside the consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, has been captured and is from the United States, Mexican off… The American Soybean Association Awards Banquet is an annual event that brings together state affiliates and ASA members from across the country to recognize and celebra… Amherst Wrestling Invite Results 1-7 1. Amherst 202.0 2. Plainview 119.5 3. South Loup 92.0 4. Cambridge 77.0 5. Shelton-Kenesaw 74.0 6. Aurora JV 63.0 7. Arcadia/Loup … Cal fired Sonny Dykes, the school’s head football coach, after four seasons on Sunday.

Trump to name Lighthizer as trade representative, tap Pence adviser for West Wing

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Robert E. Lighthizer as the U.S. trade representative, a transition official confirmed Monday night, recruiting to his Cabinet a veteran of the Reagan administration who has decades of experience in trade policy and litigation. Lighthizer, whose nomination is expected to be formally announced as early as Tuesday, will join a team of Trump lieutenants charged with fulfilling one the central promises of Trump’s populist candidacy: aggressively confronting China, Mexico and other nations the president-elect believes have been taking advantage of international trade agreements, to the detriment of U.S. workers.