Joe Biden will hold his first press conference at the East Room of the White House 1:15 pm ET today.

The move also hints at better living conditions for the illegal migrants who qualify under the scheme. The government has ensured that basic security and cleanliness would be maintained at the migrants’ accommodation.

Given how the U.S. and Mexico are firm about sticking to stringent deportation measures, demands have been made for detailed medical screenings of the migrants before letting them into busses and planes.

Lila Downs announced that on her next album she will focus on songs that talks about how the U.S. treats migrants and the acts of racism against Latinos in the nation.

A group of Cubans and a dog arrive safely in Miami after a six day journey emigrating the island.

Mexican authorities found 129 Central American migrants packed in a semi-truck near Puebla. Many were minors.

Many of the bodies uncovered in the grave showed signs of torture. Rumors are that the bodies may belong to migrants passing through the state.

Quemada Díez says he thinks Pantelion films has "a responsibility" to take a chance on projects that tackle problems like immigration in a tough way.

Mexican activists, former militia leaders and civil-society groups met in Mexico City to talk about ways that citizens can organize to provide services from public security to safe passage for migrants to poverty relief in regions where government is often absent.

Pope Francis urged Mexican bishops to "be with the people" in their work.

Unemployment for recently returned migrants in Mexico was almost four times higher than for the rest of Mexicans.

The American Immigration Council says 97 percent of the complaints filed against the Border Patrol from January 2009 to January 2012 resulted in no action taken by the agency.

The 300 migrants were part of a group kept from boarding northward-bound cargo trains after the state of Veracruz filed a suit against two railroad companies for their alleged complicity with gangs that levy a "tax" on migrants.

Tamaulipas is the same state which saw 72 migrants massacred in 2010.

Asylum officers shouldn't admit immigrants who file "credible fear" claims for the right to stay in the US unless their request for asylum will likely be granted, wrote the head of USCIS in a February memo.

At least one of the victims died after resisting robbery. Another was killed after jumping off the train in an attempt to escape.

The 15 men, who were handicapped by injuries suffered in Mexico en route to the United States, had hoped to urge the Mexican president in person to establish policies to protect migrants passing through Mexican territory. Seven out of 10 female migrants are raped on their journey.

The fifteen Hondurans say they came to Mexico City after getting sick of waiting near the Mexico-Guatemala border to receive a response on a humanitarian visa which could allow them to pass legally through Mexico on their way to the US.

“And why is it impossible for Peña Nieto to receive us?” one of the group's members told Animal Politico. “I tell my fellow migrants that what’s really impossible is for me to grow back the hand which La Bestia took away…It’s to see and talk with another human being who’s the same as all of us.”

Alan Bersin, the Department of Homeland Security's "border czar", warned those who might attempt an illegal crossing that any future immigration reform bill to be passed into law would be unlikely to extend a legal status to them.

Latin Times has compiled 10 inspiration quotes from politicians, poets and writers which recognize the struggles as well as the contributions of the world's many migrants.

International Migrants Day 2013 is a day to recognize and celebrate the millions of people around the world who have left their homeland in search of a better future or a new opportunity.

One of the victims said that a group of 10 armed men descended upon the train carrying them and stripped them of clothes, money and backpacks. Attacks on migrants hitching a ride to the United States on cargo trains in Mexico's southern states often occur with the collusion of train operators.

30 Haitian migrants were killed after their boat capsized off the coast of the Bahamas.

In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County, about 75 percent of the 1,800 people brought up on human-trafficking conspiracy charges were actually charged with conspiring to smuggle themselves.

Migrants passing through Mexico on their way to the United States are often targets for organized crime. About 6 out of every 10 women are raped on their journey.

Diana Evelyn Mata Monreal, the director of Mexico’s Social Assistance and Humanitarian Aid Foundation (ASAHAC), told Notimex that both the US Border Patrol and citizen border patrol groups were using dogs more often to track down migrants.

The Border Patrol said it would bring in more members of a special rescue unit. Agents in the Tucson sector rescued more than 170 people from the desert during a 30-day stretch in May and June when temperatures were even lower than expected over this weekend.

The remains of almost 800 people, or 34 percent of the total examined by the Pima County Office o the Medical Examiner since 1990, haven’t been identified.

A group of 165 migrants was discovered to have been taken captive for up to three weeks as they attempted to cross the U.S. border, Mexican authorities said.