Could Mexico’s shipping corridor be the future of global trade? With rising costs and congestion at the Panama Canal, Mexico is reviving an old dream—a land-based interoceanic route. But will it succeed,

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.

MEXICO CITY — Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary ...

Panama says it’s working to formalize a route long used to smuggle migrants on the way to the U.S., which is now being increasingly used to return migrants to South America in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration.

U.S. President Donald Trump's new policies concerning unauthorized immigrants and mass deportation operations have caught some Latin American countries off guard, prompting them to improvise ways to deal with the unexpected arrival of high numbers of those being deported.

With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border. See

"My agent is promising to send me abroad again.. but I don't want to go now. I want my money back," said the Patiala-based deportee.