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Migrant Border Deaths Surge with 'Increased Enforcement and Militarization,' Expert Says On 5/4/21 at 8:51 AM EDT In southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert, where temperatures can get as high as 125, the Tucson-based nonprofit No More Deaths operates a humanitarian aid camp for migrants making their way north through the barren, sun-bleached landscape. At a minimum, almost everyone who comes to the camp suffers from exposure and dehydration, Sammy Rovner, a volunteer with the agency's media team, said. In the winter months, some suffer from hypothermia, having made the trip through the nearby moun...

Desperate Migrants Ride Freight Train Roofs in Perilous Attempts to Cross Border On 4/29/21 at 6:10 PM EDT Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a report on Monday that showed illegal border crossings attempted by jumping freight trains increased by more than 60% since the beginning of the current fiscal year. In all of 2020, there were 181 illegal train crossing encounters. In not quite four months of 2021, there have been 292. It is an incredibly perilous journey for the migrants. The Migration Policy Institute reports that the migrants must cling to the roofs of the moving freight c...

A bill to establish the Nigerian Institute of Border Studies sponsored by Senator Tolulope Odebiyi went through public hearing on Monday. In his address,

Coronavirus threatens to permanently change a way of life at the border The partial shutdown of the border has many Mexicans unable to do their usual business in the U.S., and some fear shopping and other patterns may be changed forever. Fewer shoppers are on the street in the shopping district just across from El Paso in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, seen here in early April.(Alfredo Corchado) 3:36 PM on Apr 12, 2021 CDT Consider Samantha Camacho, a U.S. citizen, University of Texas at El Paso student and now a pasadora -- a common term for people who charge a fee to bring goods or packages acros...

4:25 New Mexico State University’s Center for Latin American and Border Studies held a virtual panel to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S.- Mexico Border. One challenge involves trade. Travis Leyva is the Director of the New Mexico Office of Border Health. “One thing to note that has been very challenging over the last year is our two major port of entries. One in Santa Teresa, which is a very high commercial port of entry for Mexico and the U.S, and also Columbus, which we do also get a lot of commercial passing through,” said Leyva.