REYNOSA, Mexico— So much of her is hyphenated, not just her name: Felicia Rangel-Samponaro

and asylum seekers in the Reynosa area by the region's most powerful drug cartels.... StarPicks

also staged a protest that stopped traffic at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on Monday

VOLUNTEER SEARCHERS FIND 27 HACKED-UP BODIES IN REYNOSA, NEAR TEXAS BORDERIt wasn't immediately clear

Here, anyone can come in at any time.... " I'm waiting for asylum, and we have been waiting for a long time.... And when you don't see results, you feel desperation," Leon added.As the families cope with difficult living conditions, the fate of their journeys partly depends on how long the Biden administration continues using Title 42, a policy beefed up by the Trump Administration during the pandemic....

" He told me that he'd show me he was better than a woman," Ortiz recounted.... Ortiz, 32, and her son were freed from the warehouse where they were held with several other kidnapped women only after her family in the United States wired$ 4, 000 to the kidnappers, her sister in Texas confirmed by phone.... Yet, he kept in place a Trump-era health order, known as Title 42, that allows U.S. officials to rapidly expel migrants at U.S. borders during the COVID-19 pandemic....

close Video El Paso won’t show Harris the ‘true picture’ of the border crisis: Rep.... Recruiters will request an" interview" with the job seekers in Ciudad Juarez.In actuality, cartel members will conceal narcotics in the job seeker’s vehicle during the interview.... The unsuspecting individual will then be instructed to cross through one of the El Paso ports of entry....

Striking images of Mexican migrants waiting to cross the US border make up the winning entry for this year's Sony World Photography Awards. The prestigious awards selected an overall winner, as well as winners of the professional, open, student and youth categories. Migrantes, the winning series of black and white self-portraits of migrants in Mexico, was captured by acclaimed Australian photographer Adam Ferguson.It presents poignant portraits of people suspended in time in search of a more pro

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC) issued the order in March 2020 during the administration of former Republican President Donald Trump, an immigration hardliner.... More than a million migrants have been sent back so far.... Many fearing violence or persecution in their home countries have stayed in Mexico, either trying to cross again or waiting in limbo in dangerous border towns....

“ I mean, it really is like the nightmare scenario.” A camp set up by migrants waiting near a legal port of entry bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, last month.... By October, after it rolled out to Tamaulipas, that had more than tripled to 340.... “ A migrant is money for them, not a person.” The Associated Press contributed to this report....