Mexico, Oct. 24 -- After eight years of providing comprehensive care to thousands of migrants, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has concluded activities in the Mexican border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros.

MSF created the northeast border project in 2017 in response to the severe physical and mental health needs and living conditions of people who became stranded in northern Mexico in their search for a better life.

Over the past two years, however, deterrent and increasingly restrictive migration policies in the United States and Mexico have caused the flow of migrants to sharply decrease. As MSF closes its Reynosa and Matamoros projects, we hope to relocate our operations to other areas where great needs remain...