Dreams and Borders

Law enforcement officials swoop down on hundreds of undocumentedimmigrants who had not made it far past the border. Over one hundred are detained, some hospitalized with major injuries. Sound like a border raid in Arizona or Texas? Try Mexico?s southernmost state of Chiapas, and those detained were not Mexicans, but Central Americans trying to get to El Norte. Welcome to Mexico's other immigration problem, in which Mexican authorities areimplicated in brutal repression against migrants from farthersouth—at the behest of the U.S. government. |