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After the Russian invasion of Ukraine was initiated in February 2022, the Government of Mexico allowed the installation of Ukrainian refugee camps in the northern border cities, with Tijuana being the city that has hosted the most Ukrainian refugees, with an estimated 9,902 Ukrainian citizens, [1] 531 refugees in Mexico City [2] and 18 refugees in Cancún, [3] crossing the border into the ...
Immigration to Mexico has been important in shaping the country's demographics. Since the early 16th century, with the arrival of the Spanish, Mexico has received immigrants from Europe, Africa, the Americas (particularly the United States and Central America), and Asia. Today, millions of their Indigenous mixed descendants still live in Mexico ...
On the immigration front, Sheinbaum again stressed how Mexican enforcement had helped reduce illicit crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border to the lowest levels in years. Mexico reported a record 1 ...
The National Guard (Spanish: Guardia Nacional) is the national gendarmerie of Mexico, created in 2019 by absorbing units and officers from the Federal Police, Military Police, and Naval Police. [1] [2] In 2022, a reform package approved in the Mexican Congress transferred command of the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense. [3]
A migrant rests inside his tent of blankets near the Río Grande on July 1. / Un migrante descansa en una carpa hecha por cobijas a orillas del Río Bravo, el 1 de julio de 2024, en Ciudad Juárez.
In 1824, Mexico enacted the General Colonization Law, which enabled all heads of household, regardless of race or immigrant status, to claim land in Mexico. Due to a large number of unassimilated American settlers and imported slaves, President Anastasio Bustamante outlawed further immigration of United States citizens to Texas through the Law ...
Muñoz told NBC News that the group’s overall assessment was that Spanish-language misinformation on immigration was “largely an echo of what we were seeing on the English-language side ...
The federal government responded to the increased levels of immigration that began during World War II (partly due to increased demand for agricultural labor) with the official 1954 INS program called Operation Wetback, in which an estimated one million persons, the majority of whom were Mexican nationals and immigrants without papers, were ...