Migrants

Report: About 6,000 Migrants Have Died Trying to Cross US-Mexico Border Since 2000

According to a new report by the International Organization for Migration, at least 40,000 migrants have died trying to reach a new land since 2000.

Undocumented Workers/Migrants Exploited Because of Their Status

By Paola Hernández
Amrutlal Patel and Dakshaben Patel, Subway owners in Lexington, Kentucky, were indicted by the federal grand jury for knowingly harboring undocumented Indian nationals employed in their restaurants. The married couple was charged last month with four counts of harboring undocumented immigrants. In similar news, a Latino man by the name of Jose Gallegos was found guilty of transporting and harboring an undocumented immigrant earlier this month.

Border News: La Posada Sin Fronteras Relates Migrants' Journey to Mary and Joseph's

By Paola Hernández
Joseph and Mary searched despondent North Star-driven evenings, seeking refuge, safety, and comfort. Mary still with child, the couple was turned away eight nights before they, and the unborn savior, were able to rest on presepios (a bed of straw) in a barn in the town of Bethlehem. Their journey and routine dismissal is relived by migrant families, who gather on the Mexico-side of the border -to celebrate the annual bi-national posada, or La Posada Sin Fronteras (Lodging without Borders) - where participants ask to take refuge in the United States, but are refused.
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