CENTRAL AMERICA

Mexico’s president has again sidestepped questions about reinstating the U.S. “Remain in Mexico” policy.

Karla Leiva finds herself at a migrant shelter near the Guatemala-Mexico border with her 5-year-old daughter Zoe.

An official says the Biden administration has begun flying some Central American families deep into Mexico as authorities encounter more families and unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A Honduran town was hammered by two consecutive hurricanes and then obliterated by a mudslide. That’s when the Rev. Leopoldo Serrano arrived in his Franciscan robes like an answer to the townspeople’s prayers, ready to take charge — and ready, it would turn out, to make a deal with the devil to save the people of La Reina.

The U.S. State Department has named more than 50 current and former officials, including former presidents and active lawmakers, suspected of corruption or undermining democracy in three Central American countries.

The U.S. government has put an end to two Trump administration policies that made it harder for immigrants fleeing violence to qualify for asylum

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday discouraged Guatemalans from immigrating illegally to the U.S. “I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making the trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come,” Harris said.

In one of Mexico’s most notorious cities for organized crime, migrants are expelled from the United States throughout the night

The Biden administration is ending agreements with three Central American nations that were part of an effort to restrict asylum under President Donald Trump

Flooded out Honduran and Guatemalan families stranded on rooftops in the most marginalized neighborhoods after the passage of hurricanes Eta and Iota this month have raised fears of a new wave of migration, observers across the region say.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deportations of minors during the coronavirus pandemic

Hurricane Iota is tearing across Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf

Hurricane Iota made landfall on Monday night in Nicaragua. Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season.

Hurricane Eta is churning across northeast Nicaragua after making landfall with devastating winds and rains that had already destroyed rooftops and caused rivers to overflow

It’s been a year since the Trump administration adopted a policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. The practice has gone a long way toward making Mexico a key ally in President Donald Trump’s response to a surge of migrant families, most of them from Central America.

Eight hundred Central American migrants have been hauled onto to buses by Mexican national guardsmen and immigration agents after crossing into the country early Thursday and walking for hours along a rural highway

More than 200 mostly Honduran migrants rested on a bridge at the Guatemala-Mexico border waiting for the arrival of others and hoping sheer numbers will improve their chances of entering Mexico and continuing their journey north....

Across the river from Tecun Uman, in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, National Guard troops with riot shields trucked in throughout Friday afternoon...

Trump administration agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that allow U.S. immigration officials to send asylum seekers to the Central American nations violate the historic role of the U.S. as a humanitarian nation and should be blocked, according to a legal challenge filed Wednesday.

Authorities say the number of people arrested or stopped entering the United States along the Mexico border fell for a seventh straight month in December, with Mexicans outpacing Central Americans among the detainees. U.S. authorities said they made 40,620 arrests or detentions of people on the Mexico border in December, down 5% from 42,651 in November and down 72% from...

On a chilly November night 50 years ago, a 7-year-old Peter Bratt, his four siblings and their single mother left their San Francisco home for the pier. From there, they joined a group of indigenous activists on a small boat, bobbing in fog and rolling over what felt like tidal waves.