The Long Journey to the US Border

It’s still unclear what convinced Mexico’s new president to collaborate with the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy in June of this year. Was it the threat of tariffs, or a genuine desire to crack down on migrants? In any case, the Trump administration’s goal to try and externalize the humanitarian, political, and legal costs of Central American migration flows and relegate them to a third country seemed on its way to fruition. An approach further strengthened by a July 16, 2019, executive directive that would bar anyone crossing the Southern border after transiting through…

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