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
“The Wall Separates Families, But Never Feelings” [**Humanizing Deportation**](http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/) now houses over 30 digital stories made this summer in Tijuana by people who have experienced deportation, with the assistance of a team of graduate students from UC Davis and Colegio de la Frontera Norte. This
by Alondra Pegueros Photo Credit: Tina Shull *My mother gave me a piece of advice that stuck with me. “Don’t forget where you come from.” I come from Mexico and I was raised in the United States. My whole life I have come across people who have more opportunities
by Jasmine Mendoza The Mendozas — Reunited in Mexico on July 12, 2014. My greatest fear was being a single parent. It came true on February 26, 2013, in the form of deportation. After nearly losing Claudio in the desert in an attempt to come home Father’s Day weekend after
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”
Hugo was last seen on April 13th on a highway between Mexico City and Puebla making a plea on Facebook Live. Here’s how you can help. Photo from Hugo Castro’s Facebook page **UPDATE, 4/18/17 2 p.m.: According to Hugo’s wife Gaba Cortes, he has
