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I study migrants traveling through Mexico to the US, and saw how they follow news of dangers – but are not deterred

  • Written by Angel Alfonso Escamilla García, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
I study migrants traveling through Mexico to the US, and saw how they follow news of dangers – but are not deterredHaitian migrants wait in a line to receive food in Coahuila state, Mexico, in 2021. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

The world awoke one morning in late March 2023 to the news that at least 38 Central and South American migrants had died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

A widely circulated video from the...

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