A historically welcoming country struggles to confront a growing phenomenon.
By Maya Averbuch and Mary Beth Sheridan Mary Beth Sheridan Correspondent covering Mexico and Central America Email Bio Follow April 5 at 1:03 PM MAPASTEPEC, Mexico — When a huge caravan of migrants reached this southern Mexican town last fall, neighbors poured into the streets to help. A band played marimba music, nurses offered free medical assistance, and townspeople served up chicken tamales and pasta to the beleaguered Central Americans as a swarm of journalists looked on.
Trump on Thursday withdrew a threat to close the border, but warned he’s revisit the idea unless Mexico curbed the flow of migrants and drugs into the United States over the next year. Tonatiuh Guillén, head of Mexico’s federal migration agency, and other senior officials did not respond to written questions or a request for an interview.Authorities initially thought that large caravans were a one-off — or maybe two-off — phenomenon. But they have become a routine way for migrants to travel.
They have presented “an existential threat to the smuggling networks” by providing migrants a cheaper, safer way to cross Mexico, Andrew Selee, head of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, told a congressional committee Thursday. The migrants moved on to Mapastepec, about 40 miles further north. There, the federal government is housing them temporarily in a sports complex.
López Obrador has continued his predecessor’s policy of deporting thousands of migrants who are in Mexico illegally. In absolute numbers, deportations have been steady during his administration. But as immigration has surged, they represent a lower rate of deportations. They’re planning to give out visas at Mexican embassies in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, in hopes of better controlling the flow of migrants.
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