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Jennifer Collins

Jennifer Collins is a freelance reporter based in Mexico City. Before moving to Mexico, Collins was with Marketplace from American Public Media for about five years. Collins has also reported for newspapers in Oregon, Alaska and Cambodia.

Jennifer Collins is a freelance reporter based in Mexico City. Before moving to Mexico, Collins was with Marketplace from American Public Media for about five years. Collins has also reported for newspapers in Oregon, Alaska and Cambodia. 

Traveling with a coyote: Brothers journey 4,000 miles to reunite with undocumented parents in US

Conflict

Economic limitations in El Salvador pushed Jose and Ester to leave their boys behind. But violence back home convinced them to pay a coyote to smuggle Kevin and Jose Jr. north.

Zahit Salazar used to earn a little money selling clothes she bought near the southern border with Mexico. But Mexico's new checkpoints have made that too difficult. She's had to fall back on grinding corn to make tamales.

Locals say checkpoints along Mexico’s southern border mean endless commutes and shake-downs

Global Politics
Migrant family crossing US-Mexico border on train

Why would any parent send their kids on the deadly trip to cross the Mexico-US border? Here’s why.

Justice
Eduardo Tamaniz Diego

Impoverished kids love the soccer ball that powers a lamp — until it breaks

Development & Education