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Migrants risk life and limb to jump Mexico trains in rush to border

Thousands of migrants in Mexico have been clambering onto dangerous freight trains rumbling northward in a scramble to reach the U.S. border by the time the United States ends a tough migration policy later this week.

Reuters

Border crossings top 10,000 daily as migrants seek US entry before Title 42 ends

Thousands of migrants are crossing into the United States this week before a new regulation takes effect that could bar most who cross illegally from seeking asylum, while others gathered on the Mexico side amid confusion about U.S. policy.

Reuters

US to limit asylum at Mexico border, open 100 migration hubs

U.S. officials will begin denying asylum to migrants who show up at the Mexico border without first seeking protection in a country they passed through

The Independent UK

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El Chapo’s son, three Sinaloa cartel leaders and two Mexican firms sanctioned for bringing fentanyl into US

Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was talking with President Joe Biden about immigration and the fentanyl crisis

The Independent UK

Mother’s Day brings only grief for those seeking Mexico’s disappeared

Mothers whose children have been abducted or are missing in endemic cartel-fueled violence have little cause to celebrate

The Guardian - US

Baby born using three people’s DNA

A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in the UK, said the fertility regulator. Most of the baby’s DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman. To prevent inherited disease, doctors created a “three-parent baby” by using a…

The Week

Globetrotting doll lands in Chicago for ‘Mexico Week’

Lele, a 13-foot doll hand made in Queretaro, Mexico, was on display Tuesday at a Daley Plaza fiesta with traditional Mexican songs and dances performed by CPS students.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Latino flower vendors see brisk sales for Mother’s Day, which is celebrated May 10 in Mexican, other Latin American communities

Street vendors on the South Side are setting up shop for Dia de los Madres, which takes place Wednesday in many Latin American countries.

Chicago Sun-Times

US prepares for influx at Mexico border as Title 42 expiry nears

Policy that has allowed US authorities to turn away most asylum seekers at Mexico border will end on Thursday.

Al Jazeera

Migrants amass along US-Mexico border as COVID-era restrictions near end

U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week.

Reuters

Mexico president slams 'rotten' judiciary after electoral reform setback

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday criticized the country's judiciary as "rotten," one day after the Supreme Court invalidated part of a set of electoral reforms he had championed.

Reuters

El Chapo’s son, Sinaloa members face sanctions over fentanyl

The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was talking with President…

The Independent UK

Hundreds of migrants amass near US-Mexico wall with COVID ban set to end

Long lines of migrants have amassed this week in the border city of Tijuana, near the sprawling wall that divides Mexico from the United States, in the final days of a three-year long COVID-19 policy that blocked people crossing from seeking asylum.

Reuters

11 year old girl, diagnosed with autism, has higher IQ than Einstein; soon to receive Masters in engineering

Adhara Pérez Sánchez of Mexico City, has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein. The child prodigy is receiving her master's degree in engineering soon. Adhara aspires to be an astronaut in NASA.

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Influencer shot dead in the head as killers open fire in front of horrified co-star

Kevin Kaletry was a popular TikTok star in Mexico, but as he was doing a press conference for his new show, a pillion passenger on a motorbike murdered him in a hail of bullets

The Independent UK

How those fleeing Ukraine inspired US border policies

The White House considers its policies for handling Ukrainians who were coming to the U.S.-Mexico border to be so effective that a similar model has become the centerpiece of a broader border policy rolling out in earnest this week

Reuters

Mexican president to discuss migration with Biden ahead of U.S. policy change

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he will discuss migration with U.S. counterpart Joe Biden this week, shortly before a U.S. policy shift that is expected to drive an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Independent UK

Mexican high court overturns reforms rushed through Congress

Mexico’s Supreme Court has voted to overturn a pair of electoral law reforms favored by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, because Congress rushed them through to a vote without proper debate, or even time to read them

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Mexico City’s mural movement, now a century old, is marked with a major exhibition

Between 1922 and 1923, the walls of Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso became the canvases for the emerging movement led by Fermín Revueltas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, among others.

The Independent UK

Mexico plans expedition to find endangered porpoises

Mexican officials and the conservation group Sea Shepherd say experts will set out in two ships in a bid to locate the few remaining vaquita marina, the world's most endangered marine mammal

Reuters

Mexico's top court strikes down part of overhaul of electoral body

Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of legislation passed earlier this year at the behest of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that overhauls the country's electoral body.

The Independent UK

Mexican president to hold call with Biden on immigration

Mexico's president says he will talk with U.S. President Joe Biden by telephone on Tuesday about immigration and the fentanyl crisis

Reuters

Mexico City earthquake alarm goes off in error during maintenance

The early warning seismic alarm system in Mexico City sounded off on Monday in error during maintenance work, sending panicked residents into the streets in anticipation of an earthquake that turned out to be a false alarm.

Reuters

U.S. seeks to shore up border as migrants gather ahead of end to Title 42

The Biden administration and Texas state government are sending reinforcements to the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible increase in illegal immigration when COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42 are set to end on Thursday.

Al Jazeera

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