Christopher Sherman, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Younaika rests next to her mother Jertha Ylet, who was injured in the earthquake one week earlier, at the Immaculate Conception Hospital, also known as the General Hospital of Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday. The 7.2 magnitude quake brought down their house in Camp-Perrin, killing Ylet’s father and two other relatives and seriously injuring her brother.

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Haiti quake victims released from hospital have nowhere to go

by Christopher Sherman Associated Press, and Evens Sanon Associated PressAugust 24, 2021

LES CAYES, Haiti — Orderlies pushed Jertha Ylet’s bed from the center of the hospital ward to one side so Dr. Michelet Paurus could plug in his electric saw. She was silent as the doctor cut off her plaster cast in measured strokes. Today she would…

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2016, file photo, handguns are displayed at the Smith & Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. The Mexican government sued U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors, including some of the biggest names in guns like Smith & Wesson Brands, on Aug. 4, 2021 in U.S. federal court in Boston, arguing that their commercial practices have unleashed tremendous bloodshed in Mexico. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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Mexico sues US gun makers over arms trafficking toll

by E. Eduardo Castillo Associated Press, and Christopher Sherman Associated PressAugust 4, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris waves goodbye prior boarding Air Force Two at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sunday, June 6, en route to Guatemala City.

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Harris visits Latin America to tackle migration, corruption

by Alexandra Jaffe Associated Press, and Christopher Sherman Associated PressJune 6, 2021

Joe Biden's cousin Joe Blewitt speaks to the media underneath his mural painted on a wall in Ballina, Ireland, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Joe Biden's great-great grandfather Patrick Blewitt was born in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1832. He left for the US in 1850, aged 18. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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World hopes for renewed cooperation with US under Biden

by Lorne Cook Associated Press, and Christopher Sherman Associated PressJanuary 21, 2021

Joe Biden’s cousin Joe Blewitt speaks to the media underneath his mural painted on a wall in Ballina, Ireland, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Joe Biden’s great-great grandfather Patrick Blewitt was born in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1832.

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World hopes for renewed cooperation under new US president

by Lorne Cook Associated Press, and Christopher Sherman Associated PressJanuary 20, 2021

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, migrants who are applying for asylum in the United States go through a processing area at a new tent courtroom at the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, in Laredo, Texas. The U.S. government on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, began sending asylum-seekers back to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 350 miles away in Juarez, Mexico. Authorities are expanding a program known as Remain in Mexico...

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Asylum seekers sent back across border

by Astrid Galvan Associated Press, and Christopher Sherman Associated PressJanuary 2, 2020

In this Aug. 23, 2019, photo, a Honduran father stands at his home in Comayagua, Honduras, after talking in an interview about being separated from his 3-year-old daughter at the border after traveling for weeks to seek asylum in the U.S. According to court records, his daughter was sexually abused in U.S. foster care. She was later deported and arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry. He fears their bond is forever broken. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

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US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019

by Christopher Sherman Associated Press, Martha Mendoza Associated Press, and Garance Burke Associated PressNovember 13, 2019

A man wears a surgical mask, used by some migrants to protect against getting or spreading the infections rampant in their close living quarters, inside a sports complex sheltering more than 5,000 Central Americans, in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. As Mexico wrestles with what to do with the thousands of people camped out in the border city of Tijuana, President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government signaled Tuesday that it would be willing to house the migrants on...

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Warnings grow over unsanitary state of Tijuana shelter

by Christopher Sherman Associated PressNovember 30, 2018

A migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, as a group of migrants tries to reach the U.S. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city. (AP Photo/Ramon...

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US agents tear-gas migrants trying to breach border fence

by Christopher Sherman Associated PressNovember 25, 2018

A man holds up a stroller as hundreds of migrants hitching a ride accommodate themselves on the back of truck, between Niltepec and Juchitan, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. The group is already significantly diminished from its estimated peak at over 7,000-strong. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Second group of migrants enters Mexico

by Christopher Sherman Associated Press, and Marko Alvarez Associated PressOctober 31, 2018