EDGAR H. CLEMENTE

A girl from the Mexican state of Morelia sleeps in front of a sign for Tijuana as her family's CBP One application appointments to apply for asylum in the United States were declared not valid on the application Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico, shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn-in. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Asylum-seekers pushed to new extremes in Mexico after Trump’s border crackdown begins
Migrants in Mexico who were hoping to come to the U.S. are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality after President Donald Trump began cracking down on border security.
 
A migrant carries a child through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, as part of a caravan of migrants trying to reach the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
A small caravan of migrants sets out from southern Mexico but is unlikely to reach the US
A new caravan of migrants has begun walking north toward the U.S. border from southern Mexico. It started out on Thursday from the city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala.
 
Mexico arrests more than 100 local police officers for various abuses and offenses
Authorities in two states in southern Mexico have arrested more than 100 local police officers for various abuses and offenses.
 
Migrants, who are part of a caravan heading toward the country's northern border and ultimately the United States, rest on the outskirts of Escuintla, southern Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A small migrant caravan sets out from southern Mexico but it’s unlikely to reach the US border
A small migrant caravan has set out from southern Mexico, heading north, but is unlikely to reach the U.S. border after authorities broke up two other small caravans headed to the United States over the weekend.
 
FILE - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a media briefing from the National Palace in Mexico City, Oct. 2, 2024, the morning after her inauguration. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
Activists say Mexican authorities have broken up 2 migrant caravans heading to the US
Activists say Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border. They said Saturday that some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico and others were offered transit papers. U.S.
 
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum shakes hands with National Guard officer Itzel Karina Valencia, right, during a troop review alongside Defense Minister Gen. Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, left, at Campo Marte in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
2 sisters from Egypt were among those killed in Mexican army shooting
One Egyptian girl, 11, and her 18-year-old sister were among those killed after Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants earlier this week.
 
6 migrants shot dead near Guatemalan border when Mexican army troops open fire
Six international migrants are dead after Mexican soldiers opened fire on a truck carrying a group near the border with Guatemala.
 
FILE - Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente, File)
US expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north
The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s southernmost states bordering Guatemala will be able to apply for appointments to seek U.S. asylum. Previously, they had to be in central or northern Mexico.
 
Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Sunday, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries have left from Mexico’s southern border on foot in an attempt to make it to the U.S. border.
 
Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings
A family of six, including three children, were killed by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas. The mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho said the killings occurred there Friday.
 
Wave of electoral violence in southern Mexico claims 14 lives in matter of days
Officials in Mexico say at least 14 people have been killed in three different attacks against political candidates in recent days the violence-torn southern state of Chiapas.
 
FILE - Migrants begin their journey north in hopes of reaching the U.S. border, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, April 23, 2023. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo met Friday, May 17, 2024, in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. (AP Photo/Edgar Hernandez Clemente, File)
Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration.
 
11 people die in shootings in small town in southern Mexico state of Chiapas, prosecutors say
Authorities in Mexico say 11 people have been killed by shootings in a small town in the southern of Chiapas.
 
FILE - Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters during her opening campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, March 1, 2024. Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Sheinbaum, Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, while she was traveling between campaign stops Sunday, April 21, to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario, File)
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence
Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico’s leading presidential candidate while she was traveling between campaign stops to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election.
 
Migrants walking on the highway carry a cross that reads in Spanish "Christ Resurrected" during Holy Week as they move through Tapachula in Mexico's Chiapas state, Monday, March 25, 2024. Migrants stranded on the border with Guatemala departed on Monday for Mexico City in what they are calling "The Migrant Way of the Cross" to call for better migratory policies. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
About 2,000 migrants begin a Holy Week walk in southern Mexico to raise awareness of their plight
About 2,000 migrants have begun walking in southern Mexico in what has become a traditional demonstration during Holy Week before Easter to draw attention to their plight.
 
Guatemalan accused of importing fentanyl precursors for Mexican cartel arrested
Mexican authorities have detained a Guatemalan man wanted by the United States for allegedly participating in the importation of the precursor chemicals used by the Sinaloa cartel to make fentanyl.
 
A new, smaller caravan of about 1,500 migrants sets out walking north from southern Mexico
A new, smaller caravan of about 1,500 migrants has started walking north from southern Mexico, a week after a larger group that set out on Christmas Eve largely dissolved.
 
Members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN, attend an event marking the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Dolores Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico
Members and supporters of the Zapatista indigenous rebel movement are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their brief armed uprising in southern Mexico.
 
Migrants cross the Rio Grande river to reach the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
US delegation meets with Mexico’s government on migrant influx, as officials clear border tent camp
Mexican immigration officials are moving to clear a migrant encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande river, as U.S. officials met with Mexico’s president to press for measures to limit a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern border.
 
Migrants walk along a highway in Huixtla, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. A caravan of migrants set out north through southern Mexico just days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Mexico City to discuss new agreements to control the surge of migrants seeking entry into the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Migrant caravan slogs on through southern Mexico with no expectations from a US-Mexico meeting
A caravan of thousands of migrants continues to trudge through southern Mexico, with some saying they expect nothing good from a planned meeting between American and Mexican officials about the migrant surge at the U.S. border.
 
Migrants depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. The caravan started the trek north through Mexico just days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Mexico City to discuss new agreements to control the surge of migrants seeking entry into the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Migrant caravan in southern Mexico marks Christmas Day by trudging onward
Christmas Day meant the same as any other for thousands of migrants walking through southern Mexico: more trudging under a hot sun.
 
Migrants depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. The caravan started the trek north through Mexico just days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Mexico City to discuss new agreements to control the surge of migrants seeking entry into the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Thousands join migrant caravan in Mexico ahead of Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the capital
A sprawling caravan of migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries is trekking through Mexico.
 
10 Cuban migrants are killed in a freight truck crash in southern Mexico, 17 seriously injured
At least 10 Cuban migrants have died and 17 others have been seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala.
 
Mexican army sends troops, helicopters, convoys in to towns cut off by drug cartels
Mexico’s armed forces sent troops, vehicle convoys and soldiers into remote towns near the southern border with Guatemala, after drug cartels blocked roads and cut off electricity in some areas over the weekend.
 
Drug cartel turf battles cut off towns in southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near Guatemala border
Drug cartel turf battles have cut off towns in southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, Mexico’s president acknowledged Monday.
 
FILE - A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. Migrants, mostly from Haiti, have burst Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, into an asylum office in Tapachula, to demand papers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)
Migrants burst into southern Mexico asylum office demanding papers
Migrants, mostly from Haiti, have burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico to demand papers. Throngs of migrants knocked over metal barricades and rushed into the office, pushing past National Guard officers and police stationed at the office.
 
A group of men detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after crossing the border wall in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, are processed at a makeshift intake center, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the Tucson Sector is the busiest area of the border since 2008 due to smugglers abruptly steering migrants from Africa, Asia and other places through some of the Arizona borderlands' most desolate and dangerous areas. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Mexico on track to break asylum application record
Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments at multiple points along the migratory route.
 
FILE - A United States flag flies behind the border fence that divides Mexico and the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico, Nov. 21, 2018. Nearly a thousand migrants that recently crossed from Guatemala into Mexico formed a group Saturday, July 15, 2023, to head north together in hopes of reaching the border with the United States. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Hundreds of migrants in southern Mexico form group to head toward US
Nearly a thousand migrants that recently crossed from Guatemala to Mexico have formed a group to head north hoping to reach the border with the United States. The group that started out Saturday i, made up of largely Venezuelan migrants.