Venezuelans Increasingly Stuck in Mexico, Lowering Illegal Crossings to US

A migrant from Maracaibo, Venezuela, sits on a railroad track lined by makeshift tents where migrants take refuge in Mexico City, March 26, 2024. A migrant family from Venezuela has breakfast alongside the railroad tracks lined with makeshift tents in Mexico City, March 26, 2024. A migrant family from Venezuela eats breakfast alongside the railroad tracks in Mexico City, March 26, 2024.

Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when asked to name the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border, and it's not the dayslong jungle trek through Colombia and Panama with its venomous vipers, giant spiders and scorpions. It's Mexico.