The Stunning Scale of Latin America's Migration Crisis
The Stunning Scale of Latin America's Migration Crisis
By
Robert Muggah, Maiara Folly, Adriana Abdenur
The immigration emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border is just the tip of the iceberg.
The images of children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are shocking by any standard. At least 2,300 children have been separated from their parents over the past two months alone, many of them fleeing unspeakable violence in Mexico and Central America. Their parents have been marched to detention centers where they languish for weeks. Stories are emerging of breastfeeding babies, toddlers, adolescents and teenagers ...
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