THE U.S. IS USING THE TARIFF THREAT TO PUSH MEXICO TO ACCEPT MOST ASYLUM SEEKERS

Kizuka's organization—and others like Medicins Sans Frontiers and the Women's Refugee Commission—have completed research projects analyzing the conditions asylum seekers experience in Mexico. The reports have found that many of the kinds of persecution asylum seekers flee in other countries—gender-based violence, deadly homophobia and transphobia, gang extortion, and slavery—are prevalent in Mexico.