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Mexican officials say troop deployments to the Guatemala border have begun, but lag behind initial estimates. Meanwhile, humanitarian workers say more troops will only make things worse. CNN's Michael Holmes reports. #CNN #News

In the midst of the border crisis, President Trump says he will cut off the aid given to several Latin American countries if they do not try to stop the heavy flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. Florida Republican…

Timeline shows final hours of second Guatemalan child to die in US custody Read more Early in December, Felipe Gómez Alonzo and his father, Agustín Gómez Peréz, left the family’s modest home in the mountains of Guatemala with dreams of starting a new life in the US. US authorities are investigating the deaths of Felipe and seven-year-old Jakelin Caal, but the circumstances which drove both families to risk sending their children on the long journey north are clear: the absolute poverty besetting swathes of rural Guatemala. “Felipe was happy to leave with his father,” said Alonzo in Chuj, an indigenous Mayan language. She said that both parents had agreed to let Felipe join his father, an agricultural worker, on his trip north. Gómez Pérez hoped to find work to pay off his debts and send money to the family. “We talked as soon as they reached the border,” she said, adding that Gómez Pérez called again the next day when the pair were already in border patrol custody. But for many in rural Guatemala migration is seen as the only hope for a better life. “People leave our village, find work in the US and send money to help their relatives,” said Pérez, who estimated about 200 people from the tiny village live in the United States. Before leaving Yalambojoch, Felipe shared a bedroom with both his parents and three siblings. Now, despite her son’s death, Alonzo still hopes he can remain in the US.

A caravan of four thousand migrants in Guatemala is trying to make its way to the U.S. border - fleeing unimaginable violence in Honduras. But President Trump is implying they are coming to America to vote for Democrats. Stephanie Ruhle…

Congressional candidate Maria Elvira Salazar says President Trump should call for an emergency summit with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Jelsin, who is six, squeezed his mother’s hands as she offered a hopeful message to parents still kept from their children. Will separated families be reunited? More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents under the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. But attorneys with the Texas Civil Rights Project, which represents hundreds of separated families, said it has “grave concerns about the government’s ability to track parents and children who have been caught up in this crisis”. With no clear process in place, it’s possible some families will never be reunited. Padilla is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government, an action she hopes will help hundreds of other asylum-seeking parents separated from their children. But after she was released on 6 July, she was still forced to wait more than week before her son was returned, to live with her at a temporary home in a Seattle suburb. As of Friday, the federal Department of Heath and Human Services Department (DHHS) had identified 2,551 children aged between five and 17 who were placed in its custody while the family separation policy was in effect. Fifty-seven had been reunited with their families; the department said safety concerns meant the other 46 remained apart. Padilla and her son were detained on 18 May, shortly after crossing the border with a group of migrants they had joined in Guatemala.

Trump has consistently painted those crossing the border as criminals seeking to infest this country. But many of those seeking asylum come from Central America's Northern Triangle: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is…

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