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Charlene D’Cruz is an attorney and Border Fellow with Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG). In October, she set up a full-time office in the Resource Center for Asylum Seekers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas as part of Project Corazon: Matamoros Legal Assistance Program. D’Cruz and attorneys working remotely help prepare thousands of refugees to self-represent their asylum…

When asylum seekers waiting in Matamoros, Mexico need emergency medical care, crossing the border into the United States is never a given—despite medical exemptions in the White House’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. “When we first got started, Border Patrol told one of our doctors that ‘this will not be a thing’,” said Helen Perry, executive…

Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley is a group of South Texas residents working to provide aid to families seeking asylum along U.S./Mexico Border. Joyce Hamilton, 68, is a retired college reading instructor, a grandmother, an environmental activist, and a founding member of the seven-woman coalition.

“The people in this camp are resilient. They want to cook for themselves. They want to provide for their own children. We owe it to them to provide the resources to be able to do that.”

On Tuesday morning, workers with Mexico’s federal immigration and disaster response agencies continued work on a new encampment set up in a soccer field along the Rio Grande in Matamoros. The structures are expected to house asylum seekers stuck in Mexico while also providing a designated spot for organizations to distribute aid.

Mexican immigration officials arrived at a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico early Tuesday morning bearing machetes used to destroy unoccupied tents left behind by Mexican asylum seekers, according to multiple camp residents who witnessed the event.

Photos from a visit to camps of asylum seekers living in Matamoros, Mexico on November 18.

A lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Brownsville, Texas on Wednesday on the behalf of a 23-year-old woman who fled Honduras and was returned to the streets of Matamoros, Mexico by U.S. immigration authorities in late July. The petition filed on the behalf of the woman (identified as X.E.G.M. under conditions of anonymity…

A collection of photographs from a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico at the entrance to the Gateway International Bridge from Oct. 27 – Nov. 14, 2019.