The international medical-humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) released a report highlighting how the policies and discourse of Donald Trump's government criminalize migration have resonated in Latin America, endangering thousands of lives.

According to the organization, in its first six months in office, the US government has implemented the most restrictive and dehumanizing immigration policy in years, abandoning hundreds of thousands of people seeking asylum in the United States and leaving them stranded in danger in Mexico and Central America.

Given the context, MSF assures that thousands of migrants are "trapped" in Mexico, where they face an escalation of violence, while the criminalization since Trump's return to the White House, makes them "invisible" and affects their physical and mental health.

These policies, combined with the drastic The reduction in aid and the humanitarian footprint along the migration route have had a devastating impact on the well-being of people seeking safety," says Franking Frias, MSF's deputy director of operations in Mexico and Central America.

"This suffering is deliberately made invisible, hidden behind the erroneous narrative that migration has stopped. However, every day we see the consequences in patients living with untreated injuries, trauma from sexual violence, and serious mental health conditions that make daily life impossible, she continued.

At the beginning of Trump's presidency, on January 20, the suspension of the CBP-One application for requesting asylum in the United States, "left 300,000 people stranded in Mexico without a legal path forward," according to the report Rejected: The devastating human impact of immigration policy changes in the United States, Mexico, and Central America.™

The report shows how recent policy changes have eroded the right to seek asylum and left many migrants and asylum seekers stranded without a safe place to go, trapping them in a cycle of physical, emotional, and institutional violence.

Furthermore, it points out that Trump's rhetoric criminalizing migration has also had significant impacts and "has negatively influenced other governments in the region, whether out of sympathy or pressure," warned Henry Rodríguez, general coordinator of MSF Mexico.

"They put them all in the same package and it seems that just because you are a migrant you are a criminal, and that has caused multiple barriers (...) to access basic health services," said Rodriguez.

MSF treated nearly 90,000 patients in the region between January 2024 and May 2025, of which 4,500 were affected by violent events and "many of them had been classified as torture," warned Rodriguez.

In addition, the NGO treated 3,500 survivors of sexual violence and carried out a total of 11,850 sexual and reproductive health consultations, including for pregnant women, "something that was not seen before," according to the specialist.

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