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Jessica Cárdenas

Migrants from Honduras rest in the shade beside the train tracks in Chahuites, Mexico. An immigration crackdown called the Southern Border Program has forced migrants to make a dangerous trek around new immigration checkpoints, exposing them to increased

The ‘Trump of Oaxaca’ cracks down on Central American migrants

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President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall has outraged and stuck fear across Mexico. Now the anti-immigrant rhetoric of one municipal president in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has drawn comparisons to the US president. They call him El Trump Oaxaqueño — the Oaxacan Trump.