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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to accept nearly $19.6 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pay for a migrant transition day center to help immigrants entering the United States travel to their final destinations. -
KPBS is holding a virtual discussion, in English and Spanish, about the upcoming election in Mexico with politics experts. -
Thinking about making an altar for this year's Day of the Dead? Here are some tips on how to get started. -
From the South Bay to the North County Día de Muertos — or Day of the Dead — festivities are already underway in some places and others are expected in the coming days throughout the county and across the border in Tijuana. -
KPBS Midday EditionPresident-elect Joe Biden said he will stop wall construction but never said he would tear down the new border wall. -
The murder rate is rising in Sonora, the Mexican state east of Baja, and with it the number of women and girls being killed in the state. Now, Sonoran women are joining a movement that's spread across Mexico and Latin America. -
KPBS Midday EditionHigh-profile acts of violence in Sonora, Mexico, have been big news on both sides of the border in recent months. But murder has been on the rise in the state for a number of years, with most victims quickly vanishing from the headlines. -
Guatemala's deep-rooted corruption is undermining the economy in a way that could spur more illegal migration to the U.S. -
American-owned assembly line factories known as maquilas that line the Mexican side of the border with the U.S. have been bracing for change since the election of Donald Trump, but perhaps not in the way you might expect. -
KPBS Midday EditionSince the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has spent over $100 billion on border security technology — cameras, drones, aerostats airborne patrols, fencing and walls. But horses and the agents riding them are patrolling terrain that technology alone can't alone control.
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