AP: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An international armed force slated to fight violent gangs in Haiti this year will face multiple challenges including shifting gang allegiances and widespread corruption among police, politicians and the country’s elite, a new report warned Friday.
A police officer holds onto a man wounded during violent gang clashes, as they are driven away on the back of a moto-taxi, in the Carrefour-Feuilles
AN HR2 ACT
“To secure the borders of the United States, and for other purposes.”
HR2 Policy would require the federal government to wall off at least 900 miles of the U.S.’s roughly 2000-mile border with Mexico, resuming all Trump-era plans that were interrupted by the former president’s electoral defeat in 2020.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2/text
HR 2 Immigration Summary
Summary: H.R.2 — 118th Congress (2023-2024)
This bill addresses issues regarding immigration and border security, including by imposing limits to asylum eligibility. requires DHS to create an electronic employment eligibility confirmation system modeled after the E-Verify system and requires all employers to use the system.
Reuters: “Migrants from southern Mexico’s dispersed caravan pin hopes on permits
By Jose Torres”
Luis Garcia, who leads the caravan, said an agreement had been reached with Mexico’s immigration so that the migrants could obtain Humanitarian passes and Work permits.
MAPASTEPEC, Mexico, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Thousands of people from a 4,000-strong migrant caravan that has been crossing southern Mexico by foot since Christmas Eve dispersed on Tuesday as they boarded buses to processing centers where they are expected to apply for travel permits today.
Buses provided by Mexican immigration authorities took the migrants to facilities in Huixtla, just 25 miles (41 km) north of the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border.
After migrants apply for a travel permit, Mexican authorities may provide free transit through Mexico for a year and then travel to the U.S. border, as well as other centers around Chiapas state.
Early Wednesday, some 2,000 migrants from the caravan were still waiting for buses back down to Huixtla in Mapastepec, some 75 miles (120 km) north from the Guatemala border.
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