The magazine that analyzes the power of Mexican municipalities in the economy, governance and Mexico's relationship with the world.

In 2025, the binational conversation around migration has been told almost exclusively through numbers—“encounters,” detentions, deportations, and crossings. Yet the real pressure gauge in border cities is not found in a monthly report, but in faucets, sewer systems, and wastewater treatment plants. The border is living a paradox: even as migration dynamics shift in volume or routes, demand for water and sanitation becomes more expensive, more political, and more technologica

In the agricultural regions of California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida—where over 60% of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States are grown—reliance on migrant workers, mostly of Mexican origin, is absolute. However, throughout 2024, the tightening of U.S. immigration policies triggered a domino effect that now threatens not only food security but also the efficient management of water in agricultural regions highly vulnerable to climate change. The passage o