This chapter explores Mexico City as a complex hub where African migrants’ journeys intersect with sheltering networks, smuggling economies, and informal encampments between 2022 and 2025. Moving beyond border zones, it shows how the capital functions simultaneously as refuge, marketplace, and staging ground for onward mobility toward the U.S. and Canada. The chapter traces how religious shelters, NGOs, activist groups, and neighborhood-based initiatives provide temporary protection, legal guidance, and limited social inclusion, while also depending on precarious funding and volunteer labor. In parallel, it analyzes smuggling networks and semi-legal intermediaries who organize transport and documents, blurring the lines between assistance, business, and criminalization. Informal camps, rented rooms, and public spaces reveal how racialized policing, urban inequalities, and shifting policies shape migrants’ everyday geographies of safety and risk. By situating African trajectories within Mexico City’s broader urban politics, the interlude demonstrates how migration governance extends into the metropolitan core, producing new forms of visibility, solidarity, and marginalization.