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A makeshift migrant camp looks nearly empty in Mexico's Matamoros, at the border with Brownsville, Texas, where Democrat US President Joe Biden is expected to meet border patrol and other law enforcement agents. Also heading to the border is Republican former president Donald Trump, who will be about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west in Eagle Pass. The Texas showdown comes at a time when record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States are posing a threat to Biden's chances of preventing a Trump comeback in November's presidential election. IMAGES
Several people at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border died in a fire that broke out at the facility overnight, according to media reports. IMAGES
Tapachula, Sep 4 (EFE).- After three migrant caravans being intercepted by Mexican authorities during the week, a fourth made up of mostly Central Americans, Venezuelans, Cubans and Haitians left Saturday from the municipality of Tapachula, in the state of Chiapas (southeast) to the north of Mexico.(Camera: JUAN MANUEL BLANCO)SHOT LIST: FOURTH MIGRANT CARAVAN LEAVING FROM TAPACHULA TOWARDS THE NORTH OF MEXICO.
Mexico City, Mar 19 (EFE).- Although the southern border remained relatively calm on Friday, the Mexican government deployed more immigration officials and security agents to stop the coronavirus pandemic as migrant traffic piled up. (Camera: JUAN MANUEL BLANCO/RAÚL MORALES).SHOT LIST: MIGRANTS AND SECURITY AGENTS ALONG THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN BORDERS, MEXICO.
Tijuana, Mar 17 (EFE).- Tension, desperation and uncertainty can be felt along the US-Mexico border due to the increase in migrants and the new immigration policies of the Joe Biden administration, which on Wednesday denied that there is any "crisis."In Tijuana, the largest Mexican city along the border, confusion reigns at a camp of 1,500 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and Africa, including 350 children, who are waiting to cross the border into the US.The migrants have complained that they do not have any sanitary facilities in their tents or leisure spaces and that there is less oversight by the city's Municipal Police. (Camera: ISRAEL MARTINEZ PAEZ).SHOT LIST: MIGRANTS AT THE CHAPARRAL REFUGEE CAMP IN TIJUANA, MEXICO.
Guatemala City, Jan 17 (EFE).- Guatemalan security forces on Sunday violently reprimanded a migrant caravan of thousands of Hondurans attempting to reach Mexico en route to the United States. (Camera: JUAN MANUEL BLANCO)SHOT LIST: THE BORDER BETWEEN GUATEMALA AND MEXICO.
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