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Migrant caravans restart as pandemic deepens the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border

Written by Katrina Burgess, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

The pandemic and anti-immigration policies haven't stopped migration from Central America – they've just made conditions at the border more hazardous. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

Members of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan from Honduras have been detained in Guatemala and deported before they could reach Mexico. Though their journey was...

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