Mexico: News & Updates

With this series of updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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This Wola article is reviewing notable legal victories across the Americas: Mexico, Colombia and Brazil that show a positive trend of improved recognition about gender and sexuality based violence in those counteries... 

This article by the American Immigration Council serves as a comment criticizing deliberate DHS practices deterring immigrants from going the legal route of seeking asylum at official ports of entry. The practice most elaborately explored here that goes by the name of 'metereing', in which customs officers would stand at the border line and physically block arriving migrants from stepping onto U.S. soil, is here being explained as on one hand deliberate in its purpose for agency's like CBP and on the ortgher hand crucial in its consequences, pushing immigrants trying to immigrate in the most lawful way possible into migration between points of entry.  

A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula, and Gustavo Petro

Support a historic shift in U.S. foreign policy. House Resolution 1056 calls for ending the Monroe Doctrine and building a “New Good Neighbor” relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean. Urge your US representative to co-sponsor this landmark resolution acknowledging two centuries of intervention and injustice. 

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ vote and new national campaign to support migrants are the group’s first responses to the Trump administration’s crackdown.

In a rare group statement, America’s Catholic bishops voted nearly unanimously Wednesday to condemn the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants as an attack on “God-given human dignity,” and advocated for “meaningful reform of our nation’s immigration laws.”

“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement,” read the message from the U.S.

Conference of Catholic Bishops. After the vote (216-5, with three abstentions), the bishops stood and applauded. The last such “Special Message” was delivered 12 years ago.

The new message listed the types of suffering the church leaders say many undocumented migrants experience, including “arbitrarily” losing their legal status, being subject to poor detention conditions, and being afraid to take children to school or go to church. “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” the bishops wrote.