CPT creates plan to ensure safe passage for migrant families who are at risk of extortion or kidnapping from the local cartel that controls movement in and out of Agua Prieta
As migrant populations fluctuate, the Migrant Resource Centre in Agua Prieta, Mexico, expands to meet the increasing need for shelter and sustenance
Two of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels battle control of smuggling routes, putting Mexico’s peasant and Indigenous populations in the middle of violent confrontations
Border towns across Texas and Arizona respond with care to migrant influx where state policy and procedures on migration have failed.
For the last few years, the ‘Healing our Borders Vigil’ has joined the traditional Mexican celebration of the ‘Day of the Dead’ to honour the lives of migrants who have died while trying to cross the border.
So why do they come? Are these families now any better off in the US than they were in Mexico?
As migrant numbers increase at the Port of Entry in Douglas, Arizona, CPT and other migrant services struggle to understand how to respond to rapid changes in border protocol.
In an already systematically violent border experience, Indigenous migrants face further struggles like racial profiling and language barriers while navigating the US/Mexico border
As US migration policies shift, CPT responds to accompaniment needs in Douglas, Arizona, where the CBP One application is not available for migrants to make appointments to claim asylum.
The surge of migrants expected on the US/Mexico border after the end of Title 42 never came, but migrant routes are still very active, and the US still lacks humane migration strategies