Migrants Explain Why They Illegally Cross the Border from Mexico to US Julian Aguilar, Jay Root and Todd Wiseman - The Texas Tribune
go to original March 14, 2016

Milton Otoniel Lopez Chupin of Santa Tecla Libertad, El Salvador, stands in the courtyard of the Casa del Migrante migrant shelter in Matamoros, Mexico, on Nov. 3, 2015. (Martin do Nascimento/The Texas Tribune)

Every month, busloads of deported undocumented immigrants arrive at the southern border and are returned to Mexico after serving prison time in the United States. Some have lived in America for only a few years. Others spent most of their lives north of the Rio Grande and left behind spouses and U.S. citizen children.

...In November 2015, The Texas Tribune went to Matamoros and Reynosa, Mexico, and interviewed several deported immigrants convicted of crimes ranging from document fraud to drug possession. The Tribune also heard from Mexican and Central Americans that were waiting for days in shelters before taking a chance crossing the Rio Grande.

Here are their stories:











This story is part of The Texas Tribune's yearlong Bordering on Insecurity Project

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Related: 15th Anniversary of Water Tanks in Desert for Migrants (Arizona Public Media)

Related: Has Illegal Immigration by Children and Families Really Dipped on U.S.-Mexico Border? (The Los Angeles Times)

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