Central American Migrants

The number of illegal border crossers from far flung places— including countries deemed sponsors of terrorism — has been increasing, but they remain a…

TONALA, Mexico -- The face of migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States appears to be changing. Immigration arrest statistics from…

MARION, Ohio — Over the last three years, tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors have fled Central America for the U.S. At least 19 have wound up in…

LOS ANGELES — On a sunny afternoon in May, a petite 14-year-old girl walked through the doors of Public Counsel, a Los Angeles legal services…

This is the third in a five-part series from the Fronteras Desk called “The Costs Behind a Migrant Crisis.” Listen back to part one and two. ARRIAGA,…

This is the second in a five-part series from the Fronteras Desk called “The Costs Behind a Migrant Crisis.” Listen back to part one here. CIUDAD HIDALGO,…

This is the first in a five-part series from the Fronteras Desk called "The Costs Behind a Migrant Crisis." Refugees from Central America are pouring into…

Despite U.S. efforts to staunch the flow, numbers are approaching the crisis of two years ago. U.S. Border Patrol agents say it's diverting resources away from catching drug and human traffickers.

Immigration agents are rounding up Central American families who entered the U.S. illegally within the past two years. They are mainly mothers with children whose asylum claims have been rejected.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- The line of the hopeful forms every weekday morning at the American Embassy in San Salvador. The scene is both intense and…