Humanitarian Issues
The increase of apprehensions of undocumented border crossings in the first eight months of the fiscal year since 2018.
What is 124%?
In May of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted out a policy to persuade Mexico to address the border crisis. It involved threatening tariffs on Mexican goods to the tune of this amount.
What is 5%?
The beginning of the cross-border cooperation between the USA and Mexico to combat drug trafficking increase.
What is the 1970's?
The number of US-Mexico border crossings.
What is 48?
This is the current president of Mexico.
Who is Andres Manuel Lopez Abrador?
The increase of apprehensions of undocumented border crossings in the first eight months of the fiscal year since 2018.
What is basic hygienic care?
During President Enrique Peña Nieto’s term in office, several busloads of students from a local teaching college were attacked killing 6 and leaving 43 missing. Over 70 municipal police officers and were arrested in the investigation that followed. In addition, this many state and federal authorities were investigated.
What is zero (0)?
In 2019, the border city of Tijuana, which sits on the Mexico-California border approximately 20 miles south of San Diego California, surpassed this many homicides.
What is 1,521?
Between the ports of entry or come from the ports. People bring them over by backpacking, in a truck through the ports, or the river.
How are drugs brought over to the US from Mexico?
This the average number of people being brought to facilities daily by the busload.
What is 2200?
“At one facility, some single adults were held in standing room only conditions for a week, and at another, some single adults were held more than a month in overcrowded cells."
Who is the Inspector General of U.S. Department of Homeland Security?
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was the political party in power in Mexico for decades until it was succeeded by this party in 2000, marking a shift in the fight against drug cartels.
What is the National Action Party (PAN)?
Ciudad Juárez, the sister city of El Paso, Texas, closed out August with 129 homicides, bringing the total for 2019 to this many.
What is 1,017?
Percentage of the drugs in the US are coming from Mexico.
What is 90%?
Violence became one of the key weapons in the Medellin Cartel, this is the number of people they murdered.
What is 110,000?
The average maximum capacity of a border detainment cell; the average number of adults being kept in one cell.
What is 41/88?
This illicit drug is produced to the amount of around 375 metric tons per year in Mexico, and the country is the third largest producer of this drug in the world.
What is Opium with poppy (or just, what is opium)?
In today’s Mexico, most disappearances are attributed to this.
What is criminal gangs?
This, the longest River in Mexico on the border with the U.S., can be a medium for drug smuggling.
What is the Rio Grande?
This pact between the United States, Mexico, and Canada eliminated nearly all commerce barriers between the three countries, allowing goods to more easily flow between their borders.
What is NAFTA or (the North American Free Trade Agreement)?
The number of facilities that have not provided children with access to showers during their detainment.
What is 3 out of 5?
A town on the Mexican side of the U.S. border was used for an experiment for an initiative to combat cartel and gang violence in Mexico, proposed by the administration of this Mexican President.
Who is Felipé Calderón?
By the mid 1980’s, this became the main transport route for cocaine, marijuana and other drugs into the United States.
What is the US-Mexican border?
The number of ports of entry along the border.
What is 330?
The number of people who illegally crossed the border in February of this year alone.
What is 76,000?