This magazine is changing the way homeless live in Mexico. Launched five years ago by Maria Portilla, “Mi Valedor” is Mexico’s first magazine to arise from the streets. 27-year-old Gustavo is part of Mexico’s growing homeless and low-income population. He has found in Mi Valedor a supporting community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A16aMQnpGx4&feature=youtu.be 5,000 magazines are distributed in Mexico City every month. The vendors -who call themselves  “valedores”- buy the magazine for five pesos and sell it for twenty, making a profit of 70% In this number, “valedor” Alfredo Diaz participated as a writer and as model in a photo shoot sponsored by Levi’s. His work at Mi Valedor took him out of the streets. Like Alfredo, other 35 sellers are part of this social enterprise, which is expanding in different areas where they aim to contribute tackle homelessness. Valeria Leon reports from Mexico City.

I appreciate and am honored by the opportunity to be at the Latinx Law Conference. As a Mexican journalist, who’s covered migration issues for over 10 years, the recent phenomenon of Central American refugees traveling in caravans has proved particularly interesting, if, at times, heartbreaking. I covered the first caravan that arrived in Tijuana last April. This is a picture I took at the campsite outside the Chaparral checkpoint, which is the busiest border crossing point in the world. Here, the migrants had to wait for two weeks while their asylum claims were processed in the United States. I was surprised to see only women and children camping outside the checkpoint. I asked them about the absence of men, and they said most of their fathers had disappeared and some killed. Most of the children had been abandoned by their fathers at a very young age. Some women explained to…