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Few heed latest call for caravan amid fear after police raid

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A migrant's bedding lies on the side of the road after after a group of Central American migrants ran away from Mexican immigration agents on the highway through Pijijiapan, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, April 22, 2019. Mexican police and immigration agents detained hundreds of migrants Monday in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through Mexico last year. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrant caravan broken up by Mexican police raid

By Mark Stevenson and Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

A migrant puts on the socks he'd left behind when his group evaded Mexican immigration agents by running away from the highway and into the brush in Pijijiapan, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, April 22, 2019. Mexican police and immigration agents detained hundreds of migrants Monday in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through Mexico last year. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)'

Migrants fearful after hundreds arrested in Mexico raid

By MARK STEVENSON and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on the road in Escuintla, Chiapas State, Mexico, Saturday, April 20, 2019. Thousands of migrants in several different caravans have been gathering in Chiapas in recent days and weeks. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Frustration grows among migrants in Mexico as support fades

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Illustration on Central American aid's relationship to illegal immigration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why does the Trump administration want to encourage even higher numbers of irregular migration?

By Mark L. Schneider

Migrants walk along a highway as a new caravan of several hundred people sets off in hopes of reaching the distant United States, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, shortly after dawn Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Parents who gathered at the bus station with their children to join the caravan say they can't support their families with what they can earn in Honduras and are seeking better opportunities. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

New migrant caravan sets out in Honduras

By Claudio Escalón - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, second from right, walks out with San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondtof, far left, after they visited the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero at Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, April 7, 2019. Behind are, from left, Karla Belismelis de Muyshondt, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California state Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

California governor says El Salvador trip a counter to Trump

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2018 file photo, a migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, as a group of migrants tries to reach the U.S. Activists, officials and social workers in Central America were staggered by the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he will help reduce immigration, by cutting off nearly $500 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; exactly the opposite will happen, they say. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

US aid cuts will spur Central America migration, experts say

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with American manufacturers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Mick Mulvaney defends Trump Central America aid cuts

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2019. A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border

By MARCOS ALEMAN and AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

Honduran police arrest journalist convicted of defamation

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More immigrants sue US over end to protected status

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

Central American immigrants line up to register with Mexican Immigration officials at a shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. The governor of the northern state of Coahuila described the migrants as "asylum seekers," suggesting all had express intentions of surrendering to U.S. authorities. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Democrats embrace nation-building in Central America as answer to migrant caravans

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Mynor Diaz-Berduo, 29, of Guatemala, walks down a path with his 10 year-old son (name withheld) outside of the immigration courthouse after court hearings were canceled on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Miami. U.S. immigration officials blame the government shutdown and the extreme winter weather for confusion about immigration court hearings. In an emailed statement, the part of the Justice Department overseeing immigration courts said some immigrants with notices to appear Thursday wouldn't be able to proceed with those hearings. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Courts turn away hundreds of immigrants, blame shutdown

By JENNIFER KAY and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

Judge finds Honduras lawmaker guilty in defamation case

By FREDDY CUEVAS and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Honduran lawmaker faces defamation trial after naming names

By FREDDY CUEVAS and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo of a painting depicts street fighting during the siege of Monterey, Mexico in Sept. 1846 during the U.S. War with Mexico. The United States invaded Mexico in 1846 and captured Mexico City in 1847. A peace treaty the following year gave the U.S. more than half of Mexico's territory, what is now most of the western United States. (U.S. Army Signal Corps via AP, File)

Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro carries a &quot;Yankee Go Home&quot; sign with images of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chaves and Maduro, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. At a competing rally, opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president until new elections can be held, to which Maduro responded by cutting off diplomatic relations with the United States and said American diplomats had 72 hours to leave the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Before Venezuela, US has long involvement in Latin America

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Fernando Cuevas, of the Scalabrinian Missionaries, celebrates Mass at a Catholic church in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on the border with Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Scalabrinians were among the first to start ministering to migrants in the Americas, where little by little, a network of safe houses tied to the church sprang up in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according to Bishop Raul Vera of Saltillo in northern Mexico, one of the first Mexicans to get involved in the cause. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Pope visit to CentAm highlights church ministry to migrants

By SONIA PEREZ D. and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

In this Sept. 1, 2018 photo, men ride past on their horses, in Irlaya, Honduras. Among exotic, tropical vegetation along the Caribbean coast, the Mosquitia region is sprinkled with small fishing villages where residents live in clapboard houses.. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP PHOTOS: Lobster divers risk injury, death in Honduras

By RODRIGO ABD and MOISES CASTILLO - Associated Press