Migrant flows are changing in the Americas
A declaration signed last month may help manage them
The deaths last month of 53 migrants from asphyxiation in a trailer outside San Antonio in Texas were a horrific reminder of the risks people take to enter the United States illicitly. All the dead were from places that have long supplied many migrants: 27 were Mexicans; the rest were from Central America.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “On the move”
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