Why do we keep making the same tragic mistakes with our migrant policies?
in a context of restrictive migration regimes will cost innumerable lives. The deaths in Ciudad Juarez this week are perhaps the starkest example of this dynamic because they occurred inside a state facility built, in theory, to regulate migrations and protect migrants. Nonetheless, this is not the only mass casualty in recent weeks. Just in February, 70 migrants hiding in cars and trucks have died in various road accidents in Central America and Mexico while making their way to the U.S.
, died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022, a number that even the government admits is an undercount.As much as the tragedy in Ciudad Juarez is a stark reminder of the relationship between mass death and migration control, it is also a harbinger of what is to come with ever more restrictive policies in the U.S. and the displacement of immigration enforcement to countries South of the border.
Over the last decade, the Mexican government has increased the number of resources spent on migration control. Since taking office, Lopez Obrador’s administration, which prides itself on its left-wing bona fides, has increased the number of armed border officials by
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