Mexico

Globalization and NAFTA caused migration from Mexico

October 15, 2014 By David Bacon

U.S. trade and immigration policy are linked. They are part of a single system, not separate and independent policies.

Tribunal takes up Mexico’s migrant hell

October 9, 2014 By David Bacon

Photos of "La Bestia" have become famous around the world, showing young migrants crowded on top of boxcars, riding from the Guatemala border to near the U.S.

Anger in Mexico over attack on teachers’ college students

October 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Mexicans reacted with anger and indignation to the disappearance and possible murder of 43 young students of a teachers' college near Iguala, in the Southern State of Guerrero.

“In the Fields of the North” photos on the border wall

September 10, 2014 By David Bacon

"In the Fields of the North" is an exhibition of photographs of farm workers in the U.S., almost all migrants from Mexico.

Child refugee crisis: battle for America’s soul

July 9, 2014 By PW Editorial

Since 2011, the number of "unaccompanied" children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has skyrocketed; since Oct. 2013, 52,000 have arrived, and the total may soon reach 90,000.