Stephanie Leutert
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Austin, TX, United States
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In the Brush in Brooks County: Who’s Dying in South Texas?
What can we learn about who’s trying to enter the United States from the 650 death reports of people who didn’t make it? → Read More
One County, 650 Migrant Deaths: An Introduction
The sheriff of a rural Texas county granted me access to the death reports of hundreds of people who passed away trekking through his jurisdiction to avoid a Border Patrol checkpoint. Here is their story. → Read More
How a Struggling Coffee Market Pushes Guatemalans North
Guatemala’s coffee industry is one of the country’s main economic motors and also the largest rural employer, but the industry has struggled to stay afloat. In an interview, Alejandro Augusto Molina Leanza, a coffee market specialist, explains how these changes are affecting outward migration. → Read More
How Many Central Americans are Traveling North? An Update
Every month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexico's National Migration Institute release their migration apprehension numbers that chart the movements of Central Americans across the region. → Read More
What ‘Metering’ Really Looks Like in South Texas
What I saw when I traveled to five Mexican border cities: crowding, confusion and desperation among asylum seekers. → Read More
How Many Central Americans Are Traveling North?
The question is fundamental to understanding migration to the United States. But it’s surprisingly hard to answer. → Read More
The Migration Disconnect
Trump's decision to deploy troops to the U.S.-Mexico border is no likelier than the billions of dollars Washington previously invested in border security and regional development to change the fundamental drivers pushing people to leave their homes and migrate to the United States. → Read More
How climate change is affecting rural Honduras and pushing people north
In the past year alone, the numbers of migrant families coming from Honduras’ heavily agricultural and coffee-producing western area has doubled → Read More
The Invisible Caravans
The 5,000 person migrant caravan that has made so much news comprises only ten percent of the monthly total of people requesting asylum or apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. → Read More
Dispatches From Mexico’s Southern Border: Mexico’s Migrants
For all the immigration concerns focusing on the U.S. southern border, Mexico has become primarily a “transit country,”with more people moving through it rather than directly leaving. → Read More
Dispatches From Mexico’s Southern Border: Migrants, Tourists and Money
Migrants and tourists have surprisingly similar effects on the communities along this corridor. But one group’s transit is legal and the other’s is not. → Read More
Dispatches From Mexico’s Southern Border: First in a Series
To understand immigration issues in context, I went to Mexico’s southern border—the starting point for many Central Americans’ journey to the U.S. → Read More
What Are the Legal Pathways for Central Americans to Enter the U.S.?
A look at the various visa and immigration options. → Read More
Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming
Despite what the president says, there’s not a flood of people racing across the border, and the majority of migrants aren’t dangerous criminals. → Read More
When Drug Trafficking Is Your Only Option
As it gets harder to cross the border, the mafia is helping ever more migrants enter the United States — for a price. → Read More
Climate Change-Induced Migration from Central America
Last Thursday and Friday, the United States and Mexico co-hosted top officials from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and other countries for the "Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America." As the name suggests, the gathering aimed to spur a wide-ranging conversation for improving the region’s economic conditions, tackling gangs and organized crime, and slowing U.S.-bound… → Read More
Climate Change-Induced Migration from Central America
Last Thursday and Friday, the United States and Mexico co-hosted top officials from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and other countries for the "Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America." As the name suggests, the gathering aimed to spur a wide-ranging conversation for improving the region’s economic conditions, tackling gangs and organized crime, and slowing U.S.-bound… → Read More
An Increasingly Difficult Migration Climate
Fewer Central American migrants are attempting the journey through Mexico, a change likely due not only to fears of deportation but to rising smuggling costs. → Read More
Building the Border Wall: An Update
An overview of the legal, technical and fiscal hurdles to carrying out Trump's January 25th executive order. → Read More
Mexico’s Resurging Violence
The Mexican government’s July murder numbers are out, and they are—in short—pretty grim. During July, more than 2,000 Mexicans were killed, which for context is 25 percent higher than last year and the most violent month in Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency. *For consistency since 2012, the graphed numbers show homicide reports instead of victims (as victim data begins in January 2014). Numbers… → Read More