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US to probe alleged abuse of migrant children by border agents
The girl said in her account that "she felt embarrassed as the officer was speaking in English to other officers and laughing," NBC reported.
For the analysis, researchers examined data from 96 studies with mortality estimates for more than 15.2 million international migrants in 92 countries.
Graphic showing major global migration statistics by region, according to UN data.
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration -- finalised at the UN in July after 18 months of talks -- was formally approved in Marrakesh at the start of a two-day conference.
The group was stopped by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and US Border Patrol agents firing tear gas and rubber bullets. At least one man was wounded.
Mexican Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete accused some of the migrants of attempting the Tijuana crossing in a "violent way."
The judge's restraining order remains in effect until the court decides on the case.
Dozens of pregnant women are among the migrants, now in Mexico, fleeing poverty and violence in their homeland in search of the American dream.
Trump said on Twitter on Monday that the military would be waiting for the procession — suggesting a far more direct role in confronting the migrants than the Pentagon described.
The Caravan’s progress towards the southern border has become the subject of intense speculation trump says gang members and terrorists are on board, even though there is no proof of this.
Trump has made his call for a wall on the southern border a signature issue of his two-year presidency, but Thursday's tweet storm was especially fierce.
The migrants hope to reach Mexico and then cross its northern border with the United States, to seek refuge from lawlessness and poverty.
Government lawyers said 711 other children were not eligible for reunification with their parents by Thursday’s deadline, which was set by a federal judge in San Diego.
The families had been separated amid a broader crackdown on illegal immigration by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The safe third country proposal would force asylum-seekers who arrive at the US land border via Mexico to apply to stay in Mexico, likely as refugees south of the border.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the government over its separation policies, disputed that assertion.
Relations between Trump and Lopez Obrador will be closely watched because Trump has regularly criticized Mexico.
Over 2,000 children remain separated from their parents despite Donald Trump overturning the policy that split up families of people arrested at the Mexican American border.
The protesters were mostly women dressed in white and sat on the Hart Senate Office Building’s marbled floors and wrapped themselves in metallic silver blankets.