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Alfredo Corchado
@ajcorchado
Author of HOMELANDS, Midnight in Mexico, amzn.to/UAxjaW Mexico-Border correspondent for Calls the border home 2009 Nieman
Mexico City/DF/El Pasodallasnews.comJoined April 2012

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BREAKING: El Paso’s contingency plans includes coordinating w NGOs to move hundreds of migrants to Dallas and other cities with major airports. Number of asylum seekers to double next week to abt 5,000 per day.
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NEW: An ex-combat medic, a lawyer for children, a man who exhumes migrant bodies defend nonprofit work on behalf of immigrants. Tx Gov. Abbott wants probe of NGOs for allegedly assisting w "illegal border crossings."| Latest w
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Ahead of Title 42′s end, U.S.-Mexico negotiations called ‘intense,’ ‘round-the-clock.’ What does Mexico want? Expansion of a new humanitarian parole program to apply for asylum in U.S. w/o having to traverse Mexico. More from :
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Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas’ message to migrants as plans underway to lift #Title42: “You are only imperiling your lives, and you’re wasting your money & you are proceeding in very fragile terrain," & write. #border
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NEW: Homeland Secretary says plans underway for lifting of Title 42. Regarding optics of latest surge? “Quite frankly, it’s an extraordinarily powerful picture of why we need our immigration system reformed through legislation."
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In high-stakes negotiations regarding the end of #Title42, Mexico is asking the U.S. to implement stronger policies for resettling migrants across the Americas and a strategy for fostering economic development in the migrants’ homelands with the hope of stemming #migration.
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Ahead of Title 42′s end, U.S.-Mexico negotiations called ‘intense,’ ‘round-the-clock’ My interview w @r_velascoa dallasnews.com/news/2022/12/1
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NEW: In high-stakes talk for post-Title42, Mexico wants US to implement stronger policies aimed at keeping migrants away from perilous journey, away from Mexican soil. Greater focus on humanitarian visas, economic development. Latest #MexicoCity & #ElPaso dallasnews.com/news/2022/12/1
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Thousands of migrants made their way to El Paso-Juarez Sunday night. Most were Nicaraguans and had been held hostage by a criminal group. Via ⁦@luistorresfoto⁩ follow coverage in ⁦@dallasnews⁩ . ⁦@tomthuang#nicaragua
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Gusto verte, Paco! Felices fiestas
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Las casualidades no existen, debe ser la época decembrina…trabajar temprano por el centro de Dallas y toparte con @ajcorchado, otro convencido -como yo- que la frontera 🇲🇽🇺🇸 representa 3000 kms. de oportunidades de integración...buena señal para #200AñosUSMX #AmigosSociosAliados
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1. For years, there was a little-known figure at the heart of US-Mexican anti-drug cooperation -- an unassuming navy officer who stood out for his courage and the remarkable special-operations team he built. He was known as El Aguila. The Eagle. (Thread)
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NEW!  In what amounts to a sabotage of Mexico’s electoral system, AMLO’s majority in the Lower House rushed to pass a bill to reform secondary laws that govern elections The bill that goes now to the Senate undermines both the independent electoral body & the electoral tribunal twitter.com/Reforma/status…
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