Ciudad Juarez

A planned 1.3-mile barrier across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces

Ciudad Juárez — with few migrants left, its industrial base being restructured, and its efforts focused on curbing kidnappings — shows its resilience in the face of the US president’s instability

Indebted and traumatized by the abuse of human smugglers and mistreatment by US authorities, migrants who returned without hope have managed to start a new life in their country of origin

The number of Mexican visitors continues to rise despite Trump’s immigration policy and entry restrictions. While Mexico is not on the U.S. travel ban list, the visa application process has become harder and more expensive

Trump’s anti-immigration narrative has shaped the dynamics of the border even though the number of returnees has fallen and the deportee camp is operating below capacity

The Kentucky Club in El Paso is the last legendary watering hole standing along the US-Mexico border

While the US wants to paint the fence black to deter migrants, Alfredo ‘Libre’ Gutiérrez used it to create a mural promoting unity between the two neighboring nations, based on an Indigenous prophecy

Hundreds of migrants live crowded together in Ciudad Juárez, awaiting legal changes in the US, while others have already settled with the idea of staying

Besieged by organized crime and abandoned by the state, a generation that has only known violence survives. EL PAÍS dissects the forced recruitment, sex trafficking, and lack of opportunities faced by minors on this border

Sexual offenses are woven into the history of Ciudad Juárez, where authorities don’t have the necessary resources to fight the trafficking of minors

They are the children and grandchildren of a generation that knew nothing but violence. Without support networks, criminal groups easily recruit them as spotters, or turn them into guides for migrants

Teenagers in Ciudad Juárez face precariousness, urban decline and violence every day, their options limited to organized crime or exploitative factory conditions

A group of businessmen and government officials shaped Ciudad Juárez at the whim of economic interests, which even now explain the desolate conditions in which minors have grown up over the last four decades

Of the remains recovered, only six of the deceased have been fully identified. Forensic experts have subjected 133 to a hydration process to extract their fingerprints

Immigrants expelled by the United States once again face a gang-dominated society where extortion and homicide are the norm

The executive director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas warns that the fall in border crossings does not solve the migration crisis

The Cuban couple, who have residency in Mexico, were separated after crossing into the United States. She was able to return to Ciudad Juárez, while he was sent back to Cuba in handcuffs

The flurry of measures signed by the U.S. president has left both migrants and business owners on edge, sparking fears of a rise in organized crime and a looming economic recession

EL PAÍS shares the stories of some of the thousands of migrants left stranded in Mexico after the Trump administration shut down the CBP One application

Thousands of people are in limbo as the CBP One asylum application is shut down on the first day of the Donald Trump administration

The Argentine anthropologist, who has dedicated 30 years to the study of violence, weaves the connections between the sexual crimes of Ciudad Juárez and the massacres in Gaza, in what she calls the end of the era of respect for human rights

Thousands of families in Latin America are forced to leave their homes due to poverty, violence and the effects of climate change, heading towards the United States. Of the more than 828,000 migrants who have crossed the country irregularly so far this year, 97,000 are kids and adolescents

One month before the elections, the fear of a second Trump presidency has led thousands of migrants to request an appointment to cross into the US from the Mexico border

The state’s governor, Republican Greg Abbott, has harshly criticized the vice president and all-but-certain Democratic presidential candidate for her role in the immigration policies of the Biden administration

Housing nearly 2,000 animals, the zoo was the first ‘safari park’ in Latin America

A campaign by animal rights activists won the four-year-old giraffe a transfer to an animal park in Puebla state, where he will join a group of resident giraffes and enjoy a more suitable climate