In Matamoros, a city on Mexico’s northern border, about 2,500 migrants are living in a new makeshift camp in deplorable conditions, hoping to seek safety in the US. Esteban Montaño Vásquez, MSF field communications manager for Mexico and Central America visited the camp last week. Here he talks about the people he met and […]
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Around 30,000 migrants gather daily in Tapachula (Chiapas). They are a ‘floating population’, since thousands of people come in through this entry point every day in southern Mexico, and many others leave for the northern border. The migrants here are not hard to spot, gathering in squares and parks, in exchange offices or at […]
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The situation for migrants in Mexico’s northern border cities is sharply deteriorating as expulsions under Title 42 continue and hundreds of people arrive from the south each day seeking safety in the US. The response from local authorities in cities such as Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, Ciudad Acuña, Reynosa and Matamoros is inadequate, leaving thousands […]
Read More… from MSF teams in Mexico’s northern border cities witness overwhelming needs of migrants
For two years, under a policy known as Title 42, the United States government has used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to close its southern border to asylum seekers. This devastating policy has exposed highly vulnerable people to more violence and danger. Title 42, invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 and repeatedly […]
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Tens of thousands of migrants are trapped in extremely vulnerable conditions in northern and southern Mexico due to failed asylum policies and mass deportations from the US, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today, denouncing the overcrowded conditions and lack of access to medical and social services for migrants […]
By Laura Panqueva Otálora, MSF Head of Communications in Mexico.
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Hundreds of people deported by the United States to Mexico under the Title 42 policy – most of them women and children – are stranded in a public square in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, vulnerable to kidnapping and violence and going without basic necessities.
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The commitments announced last week between the United States, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to reinforce the militarization of borders will further criminalize people on the move, says the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), leaving migrants more exposed to organized crime and COVID-19. MSF has witnessed both repeated raids and arbitrary detentions […]
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the renewed processing of asylum claims by the United States at some points along Mexico’s northern border, but remains concerned about the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who remain stranded in poor conditions in Mexico. The US and Mexico have prioritized processing […]
Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador have been responding to the COVID-19 emergency for the last six months and all three countries are now showing a decreasing number of cases.
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