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Jennifer CollinsJC

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. 
Conflict
Traveling with a coyote: Brothers journey 4,000 miles to reunite with undocumented parents in US
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.
Global Politics
Locals say checkpoints along Mexico’s southern border mean endless commutes and shake-downs
Migrant family crossing US-Mexico border on train
Justice
Why would any parent send their kids on the deadly trip to cross the Mexico-US border? Here’s why.
Eduardo Tamaniz Diego
Development & Education
Impoverished kids love the soccer ball that powers a lamp — until it breaks