Migrants Deceived with Border Tunnel · Global Voices

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), 23 May (EFE).- Pregnant women at the border have begun to rethink their plans to give birth in U.S. territory following the U.S. Consulate General's warning at the Ciudad Juárez border of sanctions on visa applicants seeking the so-called “birth tourism”, according to experts consulted by EFE on Friday. The announcement has generated various reactions among women who historically crossed to El Paso (Texas) from Mexico to …

The discovery of the cross-border tunnel would have served organized crime groups dedicated to the trafficking of people in Ciudad Juárez to attract new customers with deception, as they promise to cross them for another supposed underground passage, but then they make them climb the border wall or walk through the desert, they denounced migrants through social networks. “To order, giving it to all my people”, “We continue crowning, crossing by …

Pregnant women at the border have begun to rethink their plans to give birth in U.S. territory following the U.S. Consulate General's warning at the Ciudad Juárez border of sanctions on visa applicants seeking the so-called “birth tourism”, according to experts consulted by EFE on Friday. [...]

Users of the Mexican Customs Agency (ANAM), including carriers, customs agencies, direct customers and importers, held a demonstration in front of the central offices of the National Customs Agency of Mexico, in Mexico City, to denounce a series of abuses that the Mexican Customs, installed inside the intermodal terminal of Ferrovalle, had with them and demanded improvement in the service. Protests began in the customs facilities, located in the…