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Currently Mexico is the scenario of a new form of human mobility: the massive and fairly organized exodus of displaced persons because of violence and misery from countries in state of permanent emergency. In autumn 2018, the so-called “caravana migrante” surprised the world. It was a sort of camp of refugees in movement traversing national borders of countries in virtual state of war. It can also be seen as a caravan crossing what migrants have come to name as the largest “vertical border” worldwide: Mexico. This article offers an overview upon Mexico as a “vertical border”. By using this conceptualization, I propose to re-think a territory where all the forms of human mobility so far theorized by the sociology of migrations are present. This concept establishes new legal, paralegal and illegal patterns of management of human mobility. This is a territory which triggers diverse “humanitarian crisis” which are symptoms of structural forms of forced displacement present in Central and North America.