Crossing the world for a better life: Extracontinental migration in the Americas

“Since God was with me, I managed to escape,” says Mbala* from La Soledad, an informal migrant camp in the heart of Mexico City. Sitting with his back to one of the capital’s oldest churches, he recounts how only through occasional miracles has his family survived the journey from their home country in Central Africa to […]

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Mexico: Increased risks for migrants following closure of U.S. asylum process

The recent executive orders on migration from the U.S. administration leave hundreds of thousands of people along the Latin American migration corridor in even greater uncertainty, exposed to heightened risks on a route already marked by extreme violence, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Our teams in Mexico are already witnessing the harmful […]

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Little Birds: migrant children tell their stories from a shelter in northern Mexico

A Drawing of a Migrant Child explaining their wounds of uprooting, the multiple risks along the way, and their dreams as they wait indefinitely at a shelter in Reynosa, near the US border.

“I would like to be in my country, I miss it,” says Luis as he draws with crayons on a blank sheet of paper. He is in the chapel of a shelter for migrants in Reynosa, very close to the U.S. border. At just nine years old, Luis can tell countless stories about what he […]

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