CDM’s Oaxaca Outreach team traveled to the communities of Lázaro Cárdenas and Santa María Yucunicoco in early January to follow-up on a variety of pending cases. While there, two individuals, one woman and one man, expressed interest in joining the Comité de Defensa del Migrante. Over the course of 2012, CDM will place emphasis upon expanding membership to the Comité to include indigenous Mixteca-speaking migrants from Oaxaca and women. Also, CDM continued to conceptualize new strategies to expand the reach of the Comité to new communities in Mexico. Over the coming months, CDM expects to reach new migrant-sending communities in Tlaxcala, Puebla, Hidalgo, and Durango.