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Pompeo to Seek Central America Crackdown on US-Bound Migrants in Visit to Region

The United States will seek action by three nations in the so called Central America Triangle in exchange for efforts to halt waves of migrants planning to cross the southwestern US border, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview on Wednesday

US Diverts $40Mln in Central America Humanitarian Aid to Venezuelan Opposition - Reports

US President Donald Trump's administration intends to divert over $40 million in humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Central America, frozen over the nations' failure to curb the inflow of migrants to the United States

Pompeo to take up immigration, Iran on Latin America tour

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will press US efforts to curb immigration and counter Iran during a four-nation tour of Latin America, the State Department said Tuesday

Mexico rejects new US asylum restrictions

Guatemala court blocks signing of migration deal with US

Guatemala's constitutional court late Sunday granted an injunction blocking President Jimmy Morales from signing a migration deal with the United States which would oblige it to offer asylum to migrants heading to the US border

Trump to Host Guatemalan President on July 15 to Discuss Security, Migration - White House

US President Donald Trump will host Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales next week to discuss key joint priorities including security and migration, the White House said in a press release on Friday

US to probe alleged abuse of migrant children by border agents

US authorities said Wednesday they are investigating allegations of abuse of migrant children by border agents, including the groping of a Honduran teenage girl, at a facility near the southern border with Mexico

Migrant whose daughter died slams 'cruelty' of US detention

Guatemala Gov't Seeks Impunity for Rights Violators Threatening Decade of Reform - Report

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales's government is attempting to undermine a United Nations-backed commission responsible for reforms that allowed courts to begin punishing high-ranking military and police officials for murdering dissidents during the country's civil war, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday

Mexico Detains Over 200 Migrants From Central America En Route to US - Authorities

Mexico Thanks EU for $7.9Mln Tranche to Help Develop Central America - Foreign Ministry

Drowned migrant man, daughter buried in El Salvador

Bodies of drowned migrant man, daughter back in El Salvador

The bodies of a man and his young daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to the United States were returned on Sunday to their native El Salvador

Portland, Maine: an unlikely lure for weary migrants

Mexico will not detain migrants at US border: president