When the U.S. Pushed Nearly a Million Mexicans Back Across the Border

The little girl stood with her brother and their recently widowed father at the Los Angeles train station early one morning in 1935. Dad had said the night before that they could no longer live in California and would instead move to Mexico to live with relatives. Both prospects filled 9-year-old Emilia Castañeda with dread […]

Mexicans who build Trump's border wall to be dubbed ’immoral' & 'traitors' — top archdiocese

Mexican companies who assist in the construction of US President Donald Trump’s planned border wall will be considered “immoral” and their owners and shareholders will be dubbed “traitors,” the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico has warned. In an editorial published Sunday, Mexico’s largest Archdiocese urged the country’s government to put more pressure on firms who are […]

Canadian border authorities are detaining a record number of Mexicans

Craig Ruttle/AP Canada’s border authorities detained more Mexicans in the first 67 days of 2017 than they did annually in any of the three previous years, according to statistics obtained by Reuters. The spike comes immediately after Canada’s federal government lifted its visa requirement for Mexican citizens in December. Many Mexicans looking north have shifted […]

Nearly half of Mexicans think ‘El Chapo’ Guzman shouldn’t have been extradited

Reuters Nearly half of Mexicans don’t think their government should’ve sent Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the US, and more than 60% think the Mexican government should’ve held on to him for negotiations with President Donald Trump. The poll, conducted two days after Guzman was sent north on Jan. 19, queried 400 Mexicans about the […]