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Migration towards the USA: Mexico deploys troops on the southern border

2021-03-20T10:19:35.552Z


The number of migrants who want to go to the US from Mexico is increasing. In view of the crowds, the Mexican government has sent numerous security forces to the country's southern border.


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Asylum seekers on the border with the USA

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Hundreds of soldiers, police officers and employees of the migration and health authorities came to the Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the border with Guatemala on Friday.

You should check travel documents at various points in the border area in the state of Chiapas and carry out health checks, as the national migration institute INM announced.

According to the Mexican authorities, three trucks carrying 329 migrants from Central America were discovered on a highway south of Tuxtla Gutierrez on Thursday.

114 of them were unaccompanied minors.

They were taken to emergency shelters.

The aim of the increased border use is to better protect such underage migrants, it said.

Because they would become victims of human traffickers.

Members of criminal networks pretend to be the companions of children in order to make it easier to get to Mexico and the USA.

Since the beginning of the year, more than 4,000 minors have entered Mexico illegally.

According to the US border guards, almost 9,500 minors crossed the border with Mexico in February alone - almost twice as many as in December.

Families and single adults will be expelled from the US authorities, but unaccompanied children will not.

Mexico's land borders have been closed to non-essential travel for 30 days since Friday.

The Foreign Ministry announced this on Thursday.

The reason given was the containment of the spread of the coronavirus.

However, there have been no travel restrictions on Mexico's southern border since the beginning of the pandemic.

US media reported that the US had asked its neighbors to help curb the surge in migrants on the US southern border.

Under pressure from then US President Donald Trump, Mexico had already used soldiers from June 2019 to prevent migrants from passing through to the US border.

A good half of the migrants come from Central America and have made a long, dangerous journey through Mexico.

They are fleeing poverty, violence and the consequences of devastating storms, especially from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

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Source: spiegel

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