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This article reflects on the border between Mexico and the United States and the need to rethink the transit migrations that happen there. The situation on this border has been changing since 2018. That year saw the first migrant caravans with thousands of people moving massively from Central America to the United States. Subsequently, this situation was impacted by the declaration of a global pandemic by COVID-19 and since the beginning of the year 2021 by the change in the presidency of the United States. These events resulted in new governmental containment measures and social activism on the part of different social organizations. Based on a qualitative methodology and supported by studies on forced migration from below and critical security studies; the text warns about the tension between two points of view: the perspective of securitization and, in contrast, the perspective of social mobilization, demonstrating that in order to advance in a more inclusive understanding of migrations in transit on this border, it is necessary to assume approaches that affect the possibilities of participation and agency of the migrant population in transit, as necessary conditions to guarantee their human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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