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Migrants stranded in Mexico rush to cross the US border before Title 42 ends

​​​​​​​The number of migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the border appears to be dwindling. Shelters in cities like Ciudad Juárez are emptying as many migrants have decided to surrender to US authorities before Title 42 ends on Thursday evening.

(Clockwise from top left) Meklit Hadero in red lighting, Sinkane stsnding in front of wooden wall, Diana Gameros standing in front of a brick wall and Hello Psychaleppo looking down at a keyboard.

Four musicians grapple with the same question: What is home?

Movement
Tianna Spears says she faced racial discrimination by US border officials while working as a US diplomat posted in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Former US diplomat attests to racial discrimination in diplomatic corps

Global Politics
A man is silhouetted against a fence topped with razor wire. People have clothespinned clothing on the fence to dry.

‘Remain in Mexico’ policy charges ahead as legal challenges stumble

Borders
US border patrol apprehending migrants

As judge halts US ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, returned migrants wonder what’s next

Immigration
Students in maroon uniforms sit at desks and listen to a teacher, not pictured

Tough commute? Try crossing the US-Mexico border to go to school

Immigration

Students at the Lydia Patterson Institute in El Paso, Texas, are getting up extra early to make it to class on time — because about 70 percent of the student body lives in Mexico and crosses the US-Mexico border every day.

A sign says "Welcome to the United States" as cars line up underneath it

Trump administration ‘seems disinclined to cooperate,’ says former US ambassador to Mexico

Immigration

The former US ambassador to Mexico says the Trump administration is “an administration that seems disinclined to cooperate.”

Migrants sitting and laying on mats are shown spread across a high school gymnasium floor.

How Ciudad Juarez is bracing for more migrants under US ‘remain in Mexico’ policy

Global Politics

The border city is a case study in how Mexican municipal and state-level officials are charged with handling the effects of increasingly restrictive US immigration policies largely on their own.

Brenda Estrada

Workers in Mexico’s border factories say they can barely survive, so they’re turning to unions

Business

Factory workers in Ciudad Juárez now make only 40 percent of what Chinese factory workers do, on average. For the first time, efforts to unionize are meeting with some limited success.

'No More Weapons' sign

Juárez is tearing down a huge reminder of its bloody past

Culture

Officials in the Mexican border city Ciudad Juárez are hoping that removing the ‘No More Weapons!” sign, which is made of confiscated guns, will help attract tourists and serve as a sign of good faith toward the United States.