Latino America

When Karla fled her native Honduras for the United States she had to cross three borders. On her first trip she was caught and held in Mexico before being deported back to Honduras. On her second...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/caught-and-detained/

Enriqueta was smuggled across the border and held briefly in a drop house before being arrested and deported. She then made her home in a bus depot on the border… but was she free to leave or c...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/migrant-women-trafficked/

Iris didn’t know when she left on her journey that a woman’s body is all she has to barter with in the desert. Frequently, it is the only currency that matters. Click on the headlines to the ...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/migrant-women-raped/

Concepcion set out from the state of Morelos, in Mexico, to visit her daughter in Pennsylvania. She made it to the border and was never heard from again. Click the headlines on the left to view p...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/migrant-women-missing/

In spite of the danger, tens of thousands of women migrate illegally to the United States each year. Many become victims of horrible crimes. Some find themselves in federal detention. Others disa...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/the-women/

Unidentified Dead Common on Border By Rebekah Zemansky Families of missing immigrants, law enforcement and medical examiners band together in a macabre effort to match dead bodies with missing pe...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/death-violence-in-the-desert/

In spite of the political rhetoric surrounding the issue of illegal immigration, FBI data and scholarly research show that when illegal immigration rose in recent years, crime rates fell. The num...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/as-illegal-immigration-rose-crime-rate-fell/

More than 5 million children currently live in the United States with at least one undocumented parent. Close to 75 percent of those children are U.S. citizens. When one or both parents are depor...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/children-of-deported-parents/

The Tucson Border Patrol Sector is the busiest in the nation. Its agents apprehend between 400 and 600 illegal immigrants daily. Ten percent of those are processed through Streamline. by Lauren G...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/the-busiest-border-patrol-sector/

by Lauren Gambino Operation Streamline Explore this topic: Main Prosecuted Under Streamline Jailed for Crossing NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico — Rosalinda Rodriguez-Martinez, 61, worked as a caretaker...

https://asu.news21.com/2010/08/streamlined-and-deported/