Posted on 06/13/2016 2:06:39 PM PDT by Lorianne
Mexico is struggling to stem the flow of Central American migrants traveling to the United States ahead of the U.S. presidential election, causing major concern in Washington, which is weighing sending more agents to help.
In 2014, Mexico moved to strengthen its southern border when a surge in child migrants from Central America sparked a political crisis in the United States.
Last year, Mexico detained over 190,000 migrants, more than double the number in 2012.
But official data examined by Reuters shows that fewer migrants have been captured in Mexico this year even as the number caught on the U.S. border has soared.
The slowdown in detentions on Mexican soil is frustrating U.S. officials who feel that Mexico could be doing more, according to a source familiar with internal briefings on the topic at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Illegal immigration is stoking a fierce debate ahead of the U.S. election on Nov. 8 with Republican candidate Donald Trump vowing to deport millions of people and build a wall along the Mexican border if elected president.
Mexico says its National Migration Institute (INM), which regulates migration in the country, is already working flat out to contain the problem, but it has a fraction of the resources that U.S. agencies have.
"We're at the limit of our resources," Humberto Roque Villanueva, Mexico's deputy interior minister responsible for migration, told Reuters.
The number of families stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border jumped 122 percent between October 2015 and April 2016 from the same period a year earlier, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The number of detained "unaccompanied minors" - children traveling without relatives - was 74 percent higher. Most of the Central Americans come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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More to build the wall.
Build a wall
Trump should offer to help Mexico build the wall on her Southern border.
“To the Moon!”
Yeah right. Dems are only concerned about the possibility that the masses won't be able to get here in time to vote.
They saw that Turkey was able to shake down Europe for a pile of cash so they thought they’d see if they could run the same scam on old Uncle Sugar.
This is the first Reuters (or AP) article that I have seen posted that suggests that there has been a “surge” or that the Mexican government is attempting to “stem” the tide. The existence of this article seems to be proof that the rhetoric from Trump is having an effect. Of course, it will only last until the election, then it will be back to business as usual.
Need to put our Muslims on the border and tell them that the gays are coming.
If Obama knew he could build a bullet train between Guatemala and Sand Diego he would have it built by the end of this term.
The solution for this is much more involved than is being discussed. We should have always been exporting ethical capitalism to Mexico, Central America, and South America, at the very least conceptually. I don’t mean exporting jobs, but encouraging the development of mutually beneficial synergistic capitalist enterprises. But this was not in the best interest of some who were pulling the strings.
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