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Stephanie Leutert, director of the Strauss Center's Central America / Mexico Policy Initiative, writes about her experiences seeing the "metering" program along the Mexican border, noting that 18,000-people are waiting along the border due the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) metering policy.

Slate's León Krauze talks to Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at The University of Texas at Austin, about how the migration crisis at the border is being handled, understanding the Northern Triangle, the role Mexico is playing in the crisis, and where in particular we should shift our current focus in the region.

Core to the LBJ School's mission is "getting it done" — developing solutions to policy problems through scholarship and public discourse. Every year, faculty and students take on research that melds the theoretical and the practical, exploring the world through hands-on field work and data analysis to address issues critical to the health of American democracy and global society. Innovation Bound celebrates the impact, quality and range of the published works of our distinguished scholars.

Core to the LBJ School's mission is "getting it done" — developing solutions to policy problems through scholarship and public discourse. Every year, faculty and students take on research that melds the theoretical and the practical, exploring the world through hands-on field work and data analysis to address issues critical to the health of American democracy and global society. Innovation Bound celebrates the impact, quality and range of the published works of our distinguished scholars.

In the third of four articles for Lawfare, Stephanie Leutert, director of the Strauss Center's Mexico Security Initiative at LBJ School of Public Affairs, chronicles the treacherous and often terrifying conditions that migrants must traverse after they cross Mexico's southern border. 

Students offer policy recommendations to combat continued issues of drug trafficking and cartel violence.