I study migrants traveling through Mexico to the US, and saw how they follow news of dangers – but are not deterred
- Written by Angel Alfonso Escamilla García, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Haitian migrants wait in a line to receive food in Coahuila state, Mexico, in 2021. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty ImagesThe world awoke one morning in late March 2023 to the news that at least 38 Central and South American migrants had died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
A widely circulated video from the...





