Published by the New Humanitarian on September 21, 2022.
The grim situation of migrants stuck in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula.
As numbers rise, the hardships of migration through Mexico multiply
12 Media Reports tagged “Mexico crackdown”
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Abusos, engaños y pesadillas: mujeres migrantes viven con traumas psicológicos en México
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 11 de septiembre de 2022.
Migrant women stranded in Mexico suffer untreated symptoms of psychological stress.
Journey to reach Mexico fraught with danger and uncertainty for migrants
Published on July 25, 2022 by Cronkite News.
A report from Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, where stranded migrants face hunger, discrimination, and insecurity.
México, el limbo de los nuevos refugiados centroamericanos
Publicado por Contra Corriente el 16 de mayo de 2022.
Mexico is increasingly becoming the final destination for Central Americans fleeing misrule by increasingly authoritarian governments.
“Algunos llegan sin uñas porque las dejan agarrando los arbustos”: la peligrosa travesía de una venezolana con su hija de 3 años a EE.UU.
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 12 de mayo de 2022.
A detailed account of a Venezuelan woman’s journey across Mexico and to the United States with her young daughter.
‘The invisibles’: A Cuban asylum seeker’s dangerous odyssey
Published by the New Humanitarian on May 10, 2022.
A multimedia presentation recounts the route that a Cuban asylum seeker took through Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungles, and on through Central America and Mexico.
Internal CBP Documents Detail “Transnational Effort to Shut Down Asylum”
Published by the Intercept on March 22, 2022.
CBP documents and situation reports reveal extreme steps the agency, along with Mexican authorities, took to block “migrant caravan” participants’ attempt to seek asylum in early 2019.
Hondureños, del sueño americano al tapachulteco
Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 17 de marzo de 2022.
Profiles Honduran migrants who have decided to settle in the relative safety of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico after seeing their efforts to reach the United States blocked.
The Long History of the U.S. Immigration Crisis
Published by Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2022.
Ana Raquel Minian of Stanford University contends that urging Mexico to serve as a bulwark against migration is a longstanding U.S. practice
At the Mexican Border
Published by the London Review of Books on October 8, 2020.
An El Salvadoran journalist documents the hardships suffered by African migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala border.
The Moving Border
Published by National Public Radio Latino USA on May 27, 2020.
A two-part audio series looks at the impact of the Trump administration’s crackdown on asylum, reporting from Ciudad Juárez and Tapachula.
Mexico does little as thousands flee violence for US border
Published by the Arizona Daily Star on February 24, 2020.
A look at Mexico’s crackdown on migration through its territory, even as the number of Mexican asylum seekers coming to the United States rises.