In refugee-style camps from Matamoros to Tijuana, hundreds of asylum seekers are forced to wait under the Remain in Mexico policy—with dangerous implications for public health.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
How Immigration Courts on the Border Could Become (and May Already Be) a ‘Deportation Machine’
As part of Trump’s Justice Department, immigration courts are compelled to enforce his political agenda.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How Mexico Is Doing America’s Deportation Work for Us
Seeking to relieve the pressure from asylum seekers in border towns, Mexico bused asylum seekers south. The country’s practices could violate international law.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
African Asylum Seekers to the U.S. Stuck on the Mexico-Guatemala Border
Long-distance victims of Trump’s war on immigrants, African migrants have few options for refuge and fewer ways to support themselves while they wait.
Posted inEconomic Policy
AMLO’s Gamble
Mexico’s decidedly leftist new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is taking on the business-political-criminal elite that has dominated his nation, and drenched it in bloodshed, for the past 40 years.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A New Day for Mexican Workers
The Lopez Obrador administration is changing the law so that workers can actually choose a union and vote on their contracts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mexico’s Hopeful New President
López Obrador’s victory ousted Mexico’s establishment. If U.S. and Canadian progressives work with him, they just might create a more democratic continent.