Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent teams to Mexico's northern and southern borders to provide care for tens of thousands of vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers trapped in extremely precarious conditions. Their suffering is compounded by failed asylum policies and mass deportations from the United States.

In Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, MSF's emergency team has provided care for migrants who have been stranded for months without access to housing, basic services, or opportunities for employment. These migrants included large numbers of women and children from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Haiti, and Cuba. And in Reynosa, on Mexico’s northern border with the US, MSF teams have offered primary and mental health consultations for people facing an impasse. Many of them had been expelled from the US under Title 42, a public health order that uses the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to effectively block people from seeking asylum in the US.

“Policies that criminalize migration, the lack of an adequate humanitarian response, and repeated violence and persecution against migrants are unacceptable and endanger the lives of thousands of men, women, and children,” said Gemma Domínguez, MSF's general coordinator in Mexico.” Read more.