Amid record US deportations, Mexico urges migrants home

But many who live in Nogales, Mexico, shelter now consider US to be home

Christian Science Monitor
updated 52 minutes ago

NOGALES, Mexico — Day and night, hundreds of Mexican migrants stream into this border city after being deported from the US amid record deportations taking place under the Obama administration.

At one migrant shelter in Nogales, workers encourage deportees to return home rather than attempt to cross into the US illegally again, through the treacherous desert that spans both sides of the border.

“There’s a federal program that will pay for your bus ticket so you can get back home,â€