Ricardo B. Salinas

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The body of Guatemalan migrant Misael Paiz, 25, who died in the Sonoran Desert after traveling over 2,000 miles to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Pima County, Arizona, U.S., last year. Credit Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

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Here in Mexico, as around the world, we are haunted by the wrenching image of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 25, and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, nestled together on the bank of the Rio Grande after they drowned in the river near the international bridge to Texas. This tragedy shines an unforgiving light on the President Trump’s crackdown on legal asylum claims at the border.

These deaths, the more than two dozen others who have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since 2017, and the suffering of countless families, are the direct result of strategic policy choices — from increasing criminal prosecutions of people who illegally cross the border to shutting down legal points of entry and limiting asylum claims.…  Seguir leyendo »