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Biden’s Disturbing Acceptance of State Violence Against Central American Migrants The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration. Pedro Pardo/Getty Images Victoria Salazar, a Salvadoran woman who had fled her country and sought refuge in Mexico, was killed by the police in Tulum late last month when an officer knelt on her neck during an arrest. The incident, caug...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/world/americas/mexico-asylum.html Migrants crossing the Rio Bravo at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in March, trying to request asylum from U.S. Border Patrol agents.Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times With U.S. Asylum System Closed to Many, Some Find Sanctuary in Mexico A record number of people petitioned for asylum in Mexico last month, drawn by family ties and high approval rates — and discouraged by the difficulty of getting into the U.S. Migrants c...

Mexico limits non-essential travel on southern border Mexico is again under pressure to slow the flow of migrants north as the U.S. government wrestles with growing numbers. Author: MARÍA VERZA (Associated Press) Published: 9:28 PM EDT March 21, 2021 Updated: 9:28 PM EDT March 21, 2021 CIUDAD HIDALGO, Michoacán — Editors note: The video above was published March 19, 2021. The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned Sunday with a heavy pres...

Migrants on the move again in Mexico and Central America | 2021/02/18

TENOSIQUE, Mexico —  In the first Mexican shelter reached by migrants after trekking through the Guatemalan jungle, some 150 migrants are sleeping in its dormitories and another 150 lie on thin mattresses spread across the floor of its chapel. Only six weeks into the year, the shelter known as “The 72” has hosted nearly 1,500 migrants, compared to 3,000 all of last year. It has halved its dormitory space due to the pandemic. That wasn’t a problem last year because few migrants arrived...

TENOSIQUE, Mexico (AP) — In the first Mexican shelter reached by migrants after trekking through the Guatemalan jungle, some 150 migrants are sleeping in its

A street in Tapachula, Mexico. D. A. Alemán Diario de Cuba Statistics on migration in Mexico show that, compared to migrants from Central America, Cubans are a fortunate group. This fact is extremely curious, given that the continued presence of the islanders on the dangerous roads that lead to Tapachula is relatively recent, and coincided with an era marked by anti-immigrant policies emerging from Washington, with repercussions throughout the region...

Tapachula, in Chiapas, Mexico. Diario de Cuba On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, in front of the offices of the National Institute of Emigration (INM) in Tapachula, a riotous scuffle shattered the delicate tranquility of this small city in Chiapas, southern Mexico. Nearly a thousand migrants who were waiting to process their "humanitarian visitor" cards got into a fistfight. The Mexican National Guard (GN) intervened to quash the chaos, and the local press covered what had...