Accommodating Asylum-Seekers and Migrants with Disabilities

"If I stayed in Honduras, I was going to die," said José Medrano (not his real name), a 31-year-old man with a physical disability and a wheelchair user I met last week in a shelter for asylum seekers and migrants in Mexico City. He complained of his home country’s lack of rehabilitation services and substandard medical treatment. Expand José Medrano (not his real name) a Honduran man with a disability on his way to the US border. © 2019 Libertad Hernández José is among hundreds of Central Americans heading to the United States-Mexico border as part of what is being called the first “migrant…

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