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Mexico's president says he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s president said Tuesday that he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico. Neighboring Guatemala has set up one such center, where migrants can apply for U.S. work and refugee visas. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has so far rejected a U.S. request to set up sites in Mexico, noting he would prefer to have such centers in countries that are the sources of migration, despite the fact that a considerable number of migrant s enter the United States from Mexico. López Obrador said that he would raise the subject in a meeting of Latin American leaders he will host later this month, suggesting that the countries might agree to a common plan on such sites. “We have been looking at setting up sites in Mexico, because they (the United States) have asked for it,” López Obrador said. “We have not accepted it, first we want to talk to the ...

Border communities have seen an uptick in migrant arrivals in recent weeks, according to officials. From Texas to California, communities along the southern border are dealing with an increase of migrants entering shelters, according to officials. In a statement provided to ABC affiliate KVIA on Monday, El Paso Strategic Communications Director Laura Cruz-Acosta said the region had seen a seven-day spike in encounters at the border, averaging over 1,200 per day. The city and its Office of Emergency Management (OEM) said to have housed more than 4,200 migrant s in hotels over the same time period. Another sign showing the region is dealing with an influx of migrant arrivals, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced in a statement on Friday the suspension of cargo processing at the Bridge of the Americas. Migrants wait for some food from an aid worker after gathering between the primary and secondary border fences between Mexico and the United States as they await processing by U.S i...

Some 7,000 Africans who gave up on migrating to Europe have been stranded in Niger since the coup last month in which members of the presidential guard overthrew the West African nation’s democratically elected president NIAMEY, Niger -- After three months of crossing the desert and then watching other migrants die at sea in his failed attempt to reach Europe, Sahr John Yambasu gave up on getting across the Mediterranean and decided to go back home. The 29-year-old from Sierra Leone reached Niger in June on his return journey, but United Nations officials said he had to wait for packed migrant centers to empty before he could be repatriated. Then mutinous soldiers toppled Niger's president a few weeks later, bringing regional tensions and the shuttering of the border s. Yambasu was trapped. He is one of nearly 7,000 discouraged migrants trying to get home elsewhere in Africa that the U.N. estimates have been stranded in Niger since late July when members of the presidential guard o...

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 SUCHIATE, Mexico -- Nearly a thousand migrants that recently crossed from Guatemala into Mexico formed a group Saturday to head north together in hopes of reaching the border with the United States. The group, made up of largely Venezuelan migrants, walked along a highway in southern Mexico, led by a Venezuela flag with the phrase “Peace, Freedom. SOS.” The men, women, children and teenagers were followed by Mexican National Guard patrols. Migrants told The Associated Press they crossed into Mexico illegally through a river dividing the two countries. They said they decided to organize the group and start out because many had been sleeping on the street and had run out of money to buy food. “We just want to move forward, to fulfill our American dream and work, because we're all workers here,” one Venezuelan, Roseli Gloria sai...