Border migrant shelters become ghost towns

Ciudad Juárez.- José had his own business in Michoacán; one day they came to threaten him to pay “right of floor”, and as he was not given up he was kidnapped until his family paid for the ransom, but then they extorted him again, so he and his family are part of the 1,537 mobile people currently housed in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua.

The Border Crisis Is Over

JUAREZ, Mexico – On New Year’s Eve 2020, as President-elect Joe Biden was at home in Delaware celebrating his imminent move into the White House, a mob of some 300 Cubans stormed out of Juárez, Mexico, in a mad banzai charge over one of the international bridges toward El Paso, Texas.  They swept past Mexican border guards, leapt pell-mell the wrong way over Mexican pay turnstiles, and sprinted for America in a crisscrossing stampede through tra…

Border migrant shelters become ghost towns

JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – It wasn’t that long ago that a dozen buildings in the Pan de Vida shelter provided warm meals, medication, clothes and a roof over the heads of upwards of 400 migrants. Families from as far away as Colombia and Venezuela found protection from gangs and smugglers behind the walls of this complex in the Anapra neighborhood of Juarez. Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial M…