On Southern Border, Mexico Faces Crisis of Its Own

New York Times ^ | July 19, 2014 | RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

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TENOSIQUE, Mexico — For years, Mexico’s most closely watched border was its northern one, which generations of Mexican migrants have crossed seeking employment and refuge in the United States.

But the sudden surge of child migrants from Central America, many of them traveling alone, has cast scrutiny south, to the 600-mile border separating Mexico and Guatemala.

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Last year, Mexico deported 89,000 Central Americans, including 9,000 children, the bulk of the returnees coming from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, officials have said. In the fiscal year that ended last September, the United States sent back 106,420 from those countries.

So far this year, Mexico has detained 53 child migrants a day, mostly Central American, double the pace of the same period last year. It has deported more than 30,000 Central Americans so far this year, including more than 14,000 Hondurans, driven home on packed buses at least three times a week.

Francisco Alba, a migration scholar at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, said the influx creates a conundrum: It is almost impossible to stop the flow, yet the country cannot support a large population of refugees.

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if Mexico can deport 89,000, and 30,000 more this year, why can't we?

[Travis McGee]

[QT3.14]

Boycott Mexico, products, restuarants and Cinco de Mayo!

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Patriot Babe]

and Tequila =)

[Huaynero]

Boycott Mexico, products, restuarants and Cinco de Mayo!

better still, ICE inspectors at North-bound border perhaps need to perform more thorough inspections of individuals, vehicles and cargo, especially perishables. Some might call it a work slow-down or harassment, I call it doing their job.

[Organic Panic]

They didn’t say Mexico is just deporting them to Texas.

Now Mexico is just making a super highway to keep them moving north.

[blueplum]

I don’t drink tequila anyway, so that’s gonna be easy!!