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A bulldozer is seen next to a mound of debris while crews clear an area where migrants, many from Haiti, were encamped along the Del Rio International Bridge, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

All migrants are gone from Texas border camp, officials say

Federal and local officials say an encampment in a Texas border town where thousands of Haitians and others gathered in recent days is now empty.
U.S.-bound caravan of more than 500 migrants, mostly Central Americans and Haitians, and including many Venezuelans, embarked on foot from southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sept. 4. Many had been stranded for months in Tapachula and were extremely frustrated. They proceeded on the highway north amid the sweltering heat and tropical storms. National Guard and immigration authorities stopped and detained many of them the next day, Sept. 5th in the town of Huixtla, about 25 miles north of Tapachula. Mexican officials say a record number of migrants are now stuck in Tapachula and environs.

Tens of thousands of Haitian migrants are trapped in southern Mexico

A caravan of migrants head north towards the U.S.-Mexico border, as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Court halts use of health order to expel migrant families along the U.S.-Mexico border

Thousands of pro-choice activists, including feminist groups from the U.S. and Chile, demonstrate in favor of decriminalizing abortion, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Waving their iconic green handkerchiefs, the demonstrators are demanding the issue be included in this year's parliamentary agenda. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Across Latin America, abortion restrictions are being loosened

Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard,, left, accompanied by, Vice President Kamala Harris, right, speaks at a U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue meeting in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. and Mexico restart high-level economic talks after 4 years

Thousands rally for Brazil’s Bolsonaro as he blasts high court, threatens constitutional crisis

As El Salvador adopts bitcoin, its young president is dismantling democracy

Hurricane Grace crosses over Mexico’s Gulf coast

Appeals court refuses to delay resumption of Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

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