OP-ED: Journeys of Struggle and Hope at the U.S./Mexico Border
"The day prior, when we sat near a 7-year old child, his eyes – like almost every immigrant I met at the shelter – were red with exhaustion."
"The day prior, when we sat near a 7-year old child, his eyes – like almost every immigrant I met at the shelter – were red with exhaustion."
Another letter received from G.E.R.S. details his observations about immigration judges - and the pervasive injustice of the system they preside over.
by Joseph Sorrentino Members of La Caravana de los Mutilados protest in Mexico City I spent six weeks in Mexico in 2015, investigating the effects of *Plan Frontera Sur*, the Mexican program supposedly designed to keep Central Americans migrating through that country safe. All it really did was stop them
by Joseph Sorrentino Left: Isamel; Right: Ezequiel ### Ezequiel Ezequiel is a Honduran I met in 2012 in Hermanos en el Camino, the shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, where he was staying for a few days. He’d worked for several years in Florida as a housepainter before being deported and he
by Joseph Sorrentino The Menores en el Camino shelter in Oaxaca, Mexico. The numbers out front are the country codes for the Northern Triangle Countries. Salvador is 503; Guatemala is 502; Honduras is 504; Nicaragua is 505. ### Noel Noel had been walking for about ten hours when we met him
[Español abajo] On July 20, over fifteen LGBT migrant youth embarked on the “First Trans Gay Migrant Caravan 2017” from Central America through Mexico. They plan to present themselves at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, to seek political asylum in the United States. From a press conference
Unwilling to return home, unable to continue their journey, thousands of Central Americans find themselves trapped in Mexico. by Joseph Sorrentino Rafts on the Rio Suchiate Jorge and Kevin, two friends, worked as a team on a bus in Ceiba, the third largest city in Honduras, Jorge driving and Kevin
By getting Mexico to do its dirty work — and making tens of thousands of migrants more vulnerable to rape, kidnapping, extortion and murder. by Joseph Sorrentino Evelyn, an asylum-seeker from Guatemala; La Patrona, Veracruz *La Bestia* is running empty now. For years, the freight trains collectively known as “The Beast”
Tentative route. Follow and support the caravan at pueblosinfronteras.org *From *[*Pueblo Sin Fronteras*](http://www.pueblosinfronteras.org/actions-.html)*:* On Sunday, April 9th, a caravan of Central American refugees set foot from the Guatemala-Mexico border and began to make their way north to request asylum in the United States.