Migrant crisis leads to customs closures and daily losses of $35 million for Mexico-US trade
Mexican businesses estimate the economic impact of lower exports at over $1.2 billion so far
Cassandro, the effeminate ‘luchador’ who triumphed in the world of Mexican wrestling: ‘Being born gay was a blessing’
Saúl Armendáriz — who spent more than three decades in the world of ‘lucha libre’ — overcame discrimination, addiction, and a stroke to see his story brought to the big screen. In a new film, he is played by acclaimed Mexican actor Gael García Bernal
Ciudad Juárez fire survivor: ‘I took off my thermal blanket, raised my hand, and they said ‘there is a living one among the dead’
The victims of the blaze at the National Institute of Migration, which left 40 dead, speak for the first time about what happened on the night of March 27
‘Your dreams are left in the desert’: The faces and stories behind the end of Title 42
In the most recent turn of events in the migratory crisis, the lifting of the controversial norm — decreed during the Trump administration — has filled the cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with thousands of people. They have terrible tales to tell. Here are a few of them
Title 42: Thousands of migrants in limbo between the US-Mexico border
The end of Donald Trump’s Covid measure, which allowed the immediate expulsion of people, has not solved the problems in the area or between the governments of Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador
End of Title 42 sets off a political war that will define the 2024 presidential elections
The Republicans in Congress have proposed a law that will make it tougher for people to enter the United States. Alejandro Mayorkas – the secretary of Homeland Security – warns of ‘difficult days ahead’
Title 42: US-Mexico border shelters brace for approaching storm
People in charge of centers hosting immigrants are anticipating an increase in deportations when the Donald Trump-era public health law ceases to be in force as of midnight on May 11
Mexican immigration agency chief to be charged in fatal fire at Ciudad Juárez detention center
Federal prosecutors say Francisco Garduño was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s migrant centers
Guards at burned Mexican detention center didn’t have keys, according to President López Obrador
Three Mexican immigration officials, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in connection with the fire
‘There are a lot of migrants in there, man. How are they all going to get out?’
EL PAÍS reconstructs the events leading up to the fiery deaths of 39 men detained at a Ciudad Juárez immigration center
Mexico president assigns blame elsewhere for migrant tragedy
Eager to gain favor with the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made life hard for migrants seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border
Witness to Ciudad Juárez tragedy: ‘They were screaming, banging on the walls’
Viangly Infante, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, was outside the immigration facility waiting for her husband when the fire broke out. ‘They had the chance to open the cells and they didn’t do it. Why didn’t they do it?’
Investigation into Ciudad Juárez detention center fire is of utmost urgency
The Mexican authorities must get to the bottom of what took place at the border facility and determine who is responsible for the tragedy at whatever cost
Deaths in Ciudad Juárez detention center fire lay bare the harsh reality of migration crisis
The blaze at a Mexican government immigration facility left 38 people dead and 28 more seriously injured, the worst such tragedy in living memory
Migrants start fire at Mexico detention center, killing 40
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility in Ciudad Juárez, near the U.S. border, after learning they would be deported
Government corruption breeds criminal impunity in Mexico’s prisons
Powerful inmates manage their violent criminal enterprises while living in comfortable cells