Migrant Numbers on Border Plunge as Mexico Helps U.S. to Stem Flow
Mexico is taking steps to keep migrants from massing along the border. But as they flow into southern Mexico the calm may be short-lived.
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Mexico is taking steps to keep migrants from massing along the border. But as they flow into southern Mexico the calm may be short-lived.
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Migrant shelters with plenty of empty beds. Soup kitchens with food to spare. Soldiers patrolling intersections where migrant families once begged for spare change.
The Migrant Protection Protocols, which forced some migrants to await the outcome of US asylum claims in Mexico, will restart on Monday.
Mexico's National Institute of Migration said 600 migrants from 12 from 12 countries were removed from two tractor trailers that were stopped during a roadside police inspection in Veracruz on Friday.
Mexican authorities find more than 400 migrants in trailers % Mexican authorities discovered more than 400 migrants transiting the country in the back of two semi-trailers