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Undocumented

Daniel Vega and Maria Elena Figueroa

This migrant is done with the US. Instead, he’s choosing to live undocumented in Mexico.

Economics

After years of a migrant’s life, Daniel Vega, from Guatemala, is ready to put down roots in Mexico. But being “undocumented anywhere is never easy.”

Erick Silva Palacios

Young, undocumented and trying to ‘keep my sanity’

Global Politics
Protest

In wake of Trump’s immigration restrictions, scam artists prey on the undocumented

Conflict
Barcelona immigrant vendors _01

In battle for Barcelona’s sidewalks, immigrant vendors want a way out

Justice
Iowan Maria Alcivar caucused and voted yesterday for the first time.

This Latina was undocumented for 14 years — she just taught others to caucus

Global Politics
Deportees arrive at the Monsignor Romero international airport in San Salvador.

Here’s how undocumented families might prepare for a worst-case scenario

Justice

Immigration agents have been knocking on doors in Texas, Georgia and South Carolina. Many deported parents don’t have time to even say good-bye — which has led them to prepare in advance should that come to pass.

A girl receives anti-measles vaccination drops in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Mass national vaccination campaigns against measles and polio are common in much of the developing world.

A Nigerian writer mocks US disease concern, saying that Africa should screen Americans for measles

Health

The wildly popular tweet was aimed at a nation that stigmatized all Africans during the Ebola outbreak. While the US government recommends all its citizens get inoculations, including one for measles, many states allow exemptions for personal or philosophical concerns. Immigrants, however, don’t enjoy that choice.

Orange is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero.

‘Orange is the New Black’ star Diane Guerrero describes her parents’ deportation

Global Politics

The immigrant parents of actress Diane Guerrero were deported to Colombia in 2000, where they still live. Guerrero was only 14 at the time, and struggled to fend for herself alone in the United States.

Migrants wait for a "coyote," the colloquial term for people smugglers, about 60 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Mexican state of Sonora. Coyotes call their clients "pollos," or chickens.

Facebook offers the best advertising for migrant-smuggling coyotes

Global Politics

People who smuggle migrants across the US-Mexico border, known as coyotes or polleros, are logging on to Facebook to find more clients. Satisfied customers will post reviews of their coyotes on social media, and connect their relatives to helpful smuggling contacts online.People who smuggle migrants across the US-Mexico border, known as coyotes or polleros, are logging on to Facebook to find more clients. Satisfied customers will post reviews of their coyotes on social media, and connect their relatives to helpful smuggling contacts online.

Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.

Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well

Conflict & Justice

Óscar Martínez’s latest book tracks the harrowing train that transports many Central American migrants to the US-Mexico border.