Who’s Trying to Cross Our Southern Border? Everyone

“Last month, when President Bush was promoting what he called a “comprehensive strategy” on border security to prevent “people from coming here in the first place,” few Americans had any doubt to whom the president was referring: undocumented Mexicans. Ignored in the rhetoric, as well as in U.S. policy, is a far more complex reality — that the southern border is no longer just a border with Mexico. It is a global frontier that has become a conduit for illegal immigrants from all over the world.

A snapshot of this reality was provided to me during a recent trip to Mexico when officers from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a group committed to managing the global migration crisis, showed me a classified official list of undocumented migrants held in Mexico City’s migrant detention center during one day last April. On that day the estacin migratoria housed some 630 people from nearly 60 countries — about a third of the nations in the world — most of whom had hoped to use Mexico as a gateway to the United States….”

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