The Importance of Refugees in Mexico

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Lauren Wolfe: Ciudad Juarez and other Mexican border cities are not easy places for migrants. "Mexico has not made it easy for people to integrate into society or to work," she says. Some of those earlier demographics have family members in Miami or New York who can help support them with US dollars sent to Mexico. The Venezuelans, for example, don't have that; they're very much on their own.

Title 42, a Covid-era policy that included strict limits on migration into the US from Mexico, has expired. El Paso Times reporter Lauren Villagran explains what that means for both the border communities and the far-flung cities feeling the brunt of border politics.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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