Mexico's Other Border
Central American immigrants heading north face many hazards--and many crossings--in their risky trek to the "land of marvels."
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans cross illegally into Mexico--400,235, to cite one oddly precise estimate from the Mexican National Institute of Migration--along the country's southern border, which angles over 750 miles of river and volcanic slope and jungle at the top of Central America. Nobody knows exactly how many of those migrants are headed to the United States, but most put that figure at 150,000 or more a year, and the pace ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
