Blade returns to Mexico-U.S. border
Washington Blade International News Editor Michael K. Lavers will be on assignment in Mexico and El Salvador through Feb. 8 to cover the impact of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy on LGBTQ migrants and asylum seekers.
Lavers will report from Tijuana and Mexicali, two Mexican cities that border the U.S. He will also be in Mexico City and San Salvador, the Salvadoran capital, before returning to D.C.
The Blade reported from the Mexico-U.S. border and from El Salvador and other Central American countries — Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama — several times during the first Trump administration.
Lavers also traveled to the region during the Biden-Harris administration. “The second Trump administration’s immigration policies have had immediate consequences along the Mexico-U.S.
