EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Migrants from Latin America are still setting off for the U.S. borders albeit nowhere close to the numbers seen prior to 2025.
Those who make the journey are met with violence and exploitation in countries they cross on their way north. Those who made it to Mexico are stranded due to U.S. deterrence tactics including the closing of asylum avenues, according to a new report by Doctors Without Borders.
“Violence along the route between the Darien Gap and Mexico has been very high and has not stopped. It remains one of the longest and most dangerous migration routes on Earth,” the organization said in its Aug. 12 report.
Doctors Without Borders teams encountered 3,000 victims of sexual violence and interviewed 17,000 migrants in need of mental health consul