Mexico

Amnesty International is calling on the US Department of Justice to drop "spurious criminal charges" against a humanitarian volunteer in Arizona facing a retrial in relation to humanitarian assistance he provided to migrants near the US-Mexico border.

A crime reporter was gunned down outside her home after writing a series of stories implicating police officers in a kidnapping.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern at reports that US Customs and Border Protection is harassing journalists or subjecting them to invasive questioning during secondary screening when they cross into the United States.

The Trump administration has announced that it intends to keep asylum seekers on the Mexican side of the border while their claims for protection in the United States are processed.