“It’s really much more of a question of sitting down and figuring out ‘What can we do?’”īiden took office in January pledging to undo many of the restrictive immigration policies of former President Donald Trump. “It’s not a question of lists of demands or asking people to do more,” the official said. The administration has talked with Mexico about management of its southern border with Central America, a U.S. The White House has said the administration has not discussed with Mexico how it deploys security forces on its own soil. Guillen said that previously raids had been occasional but now they were common practice. It did not provide comparative data for the total number of migrants swept up in raids in previous years.īut Tonatiuh Guillen, the head of Mexico’s immigration agency until 2019, told Reuters the frequency and scale of the current detentions were unprecedented. Mexico’s National Migration Institute said the decision to launch the train raids was not at the behest of the United States and it had not made such detentions in recent years because fewer migrants had used trains previously to travel northwards. More than 800 migrants were also detained while traveling northward in buses or tractor trailers in recent weeks, according to figures from immigration authorities tallied by Reuters.
16 along train routes in six southern and central Mexican states, as well as in the capital, Mexico’s immigration agency said in a statement. Some 1,200 migrants from Central America - including more than 300 children - were swept up in raids between Jan.
While Mexico has welcomed Biden’s pledge to tackle the root causes of migration from Central America, it is concerned that the new administration’s efforts to make it easier for people to claim asylum in the United States is encouraging migration and putting a burden on Mexico. The crackdown by immigration agents backed by the military and police marks an escalation of Mexico’s efforts to control migration across its territory. FILE PHOTO: A member of the Mexican National Guard observes migrants after they crossed into El Paso, Texas, U.S., to turn themselves in to request asylum, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 11, 2021.
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