
Mexico
Americas
Advocacy for Mexico
What’s Happening?
While Mexico’s asylum laws are generous, asylum seekers still face a broad range of challenges accessing safety and integration in Mexico. The United States also exerts a great deal of influence on Mexican migration policy, including pressuring Mexico to increase enforcement measures to keep asylum seekers away from the U.S. southern border and to accept removals of third country nationals to Mexico. This has overwhelmed Mexican shelters and increased the power of criminal gangs who target stranded asylum seekers in Mexico. At the same time, violence and extortion is leading increasing numbers of Mexicans to seek asylum in the United States.
What Must Be Done?
Refugees International is urging the government of Mexico to continue to invest in its protection system and improve the ability of asylum seekers and refugees to gain access to work and services, especially through access to regularization and engagement with the private sector. It also recommends Mexico engage with other Latin American governments to increase access to protection in the region overall, especially given the withdrawal of U.S. leadership on refugee resettlement and other pathways.
Latest Reports and Briefs

Pushed into the Shadows: Mexico’s Reception of Haitian Migrants
April 28, 2022

MPP as a Microcosm: What’s Wrong with Asylum at the Border and How to Fix It
February 11, 2022

Networks of Care for Displaced LGBTQ+ People: How the United States Can Support LGBTQ+-led Organizations in Central America and Mexico
January 27, 2022
Latest Opinions, Q&As, and Explainers

Q&A: Meet Migrant Women’s Rights Advocate Stacie Girón of Espacio Migrante
October 10, 2023

Preguntas y respuestas: Conozcan a Stacie Girón de Espacio Migrante, defensora de los derechos de las mujeres migrantes
October 10, 2023

A Legal Win for Access to Asylum in the United States: Q&A with Yael Schacher
April 17, 2023
Latest Advocacy Letters

The Biden Administration Must Immediately Stop Conducting Credible Fear Interviews in CBP Custody
June 5, 2023

Recommendations for the Shelter and Services Program: Making Possible Sustainable, Orderly, and Safe Reception at the US-Mexico Border
April 24, 2023

+90 Civil Society Orgs Urge Leaders to Uphold Rights, Access to Asylum at North American Leaders’ Summit
January 9, 2023