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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Pedro Rios of the American Friends Services Committee about how Tijuana, Mexico, is grappling with the continuing influx of migrants.
Disorientation while climbing border walls has contributed to incalculable suffering.
Congress must act to end the U.S. Border Patrol's special, secretive, unsanctioned Critical Incident Teams.
In at least one recent report, the United States is labeled as a backsliding democracy because of a decline in fundamental checks and balances at the federal level.
is director, U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee. He lives in Chula Vista. Last month, I spoke with a mother of two teenage boys at the Chaparral migrant encampment in Tijuana, who I’ll call Julia. Julia left her hometown in Mexico because a gang threatened her boys and disabled her husband when he defended them. When she and her family arrived in Tijuana, she discovered that people connected to the gang in her hometown were in Tijuana, and she was strongly considering having her boys cross without her to the United States. Julia had heard that if she crossed with...