Viatorians support the Washington-based Latin America Working Group in its mission to ensure that U.S. policies advance human rights, peace, and social, environmental, and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.
As part of that mission, the organization regularly highlights top articles and reports related to issues of U.S. immigration and enforcement policy and migration from Central America and Mexico.
Among their latest briefs is one that demonstrates how the Trump administration’s policy of making migrants wait in Mexico while their asylum cases progress, puts migrants in danger. Read the full story here that was exposed by NBC News in New York.
A Bloomberg report exposes how coyotes, or people smugglers in Mexico, are getting rich at the expense of women and children trying to cross the border. In fact, that story reports the shocking number of children who have died this year while trying to cross, up dramatically from the prior year.
Find out more about the Latin America Working Group and its ways to speak up for human rights, peace and justice in the Americas, here.