LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States closed its busiest border crossing with Mexico for several hours on Monday, following a day of protests in the city of Tijuana against the arrival of the migrant “caravan”. Queues at the Tijuana crossing stretched back for several miles as traffic into the US was blocked while new security…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation to block asylum applications by people who try to enter the United States illegally. Trump, who has made changing U.S. immigration law and tightening border security top goals in his administration, said the move was to address the problem of large numbers of migrants…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 100 members of the migrant caravan travelling through Mexico in an attempt to reach the United States have been kidnapped by the Zetas cartel, according to human rights officials in the country. Fleeing gang violence and threats back home in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, thousands of the migrants travelling…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yonsi Marilu had not heard about the threat from Donald Trump to shut the US border, but the news made little difference to her plans. When you have lived in a San Salvador neighbourhood where you can be killed by a gang simply for crossing into a rival’s turf, or where a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWRANGERS)-President Trump said the US will “turn away” the thousands of Central American migrants heading to the US border in search of asylum and blamed Democrats for being weak on immigration. “Full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther (sic) Border. People have to…