Thread: Mexico deploys 15,000 troops to US border to slow migration

Mexico deploys 15,000 troops to US border to slow migration

AFP•June 24, 2019

Mexican National Guardsmen detain Central American migrants trying to cross the Rio Bravo, in Ciudad Juarez on June 21, 2019 (AFP Photo/HERIKA MARTINEZ) More

Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico has deployed nearly 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen to its border with the United States, the army chief said Monday -- admitting they are detaining migrants who try to cross, after the policy triggered backlash.

Under pressure from US President Donald Trump to slow the surge of Central Americans crossing the border, Mexico promised earlier this month to reinforce its southern border with 6,000 National Guardsmen, but had not previously disclosed the extent of the crackdown on its northern border.

"We have a total deployment, between the National Guard and army units, of 14,000, almost 15,000 men in the north of the country," Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said at a press conference alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Asked whether those forces were detaining migrants to prevent them from crossing, Sandoval replied: "Yes."

"Given that (undocumented) migration is not a crime but rather an administrative violation, we simply detain them and turn them over to the authorities" at the National Migration Institute, he said.

The government has faced criticism over migrant detentions at the northern border since an AFP photographer documented last week how heavily armed National Guardsmen in Ciudad Juarez forcefully stopped two women and a young girl from crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States.

The policy is a shift from previous practice. The Mexican security forces had not typically detained migrants at the US border in the past.

Fleeing chronic poverty and brutal gang violence in their home countries, the Central Americans crossing Mexico mostly lack migration papers.

However, international law protects the right of undocumented migrants to cross international borders to request asylum. And the US courts have upheld their right to do that anywhere along the border, whether or not it is an official crossing.


Trump wants Mexico to do more to stop a recent increase in migrant arrivals.

Last month, he threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods, extracting a promise from Lopez Obrador's government to reinforce Mexico's southern border and expand its policy of taking back migrants while the US processes their asylum claims.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-deploys-15-000-troops-us-border-slow-173939311.html

Trump needs to deploy a convoy of buses and drivers to Mexico and help BUS THEM BACK.

Ensure they are being deported on the spot!

Get airplanes in Mexico City and fly the Cubans, Haitian's, African's and the rest back home!

KEEP THEM AWAY FROM OUR BORDER!

Nearly 15,000 MEXICAN Troops Deployed to the Border to Stop Migrant Flow to the US

June 24, 2019

Cassandra Fairbanks



Mexico has deployed 15,000 of their troops and National Guardsmen to their northern border to stop the flow of illegal migrants into the United States.

It seems as though President Donald Trump has managed to get Mexico to be more serious about protecting our border than the Democratic Party.

The Mexican troops have been ordered to protect the border amid ramped up pressure from President Trump.

“We have a total deployment, between the National Guard and army units, of 14,000, almost 15,000 men in the north of the country,” Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said at a press conference alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to a report from the AFP.

Sandoval told reporters that the troops will be stopping and detaining illegal migrants to prevent them from crossing the US border. Mexican officials typically did not stop illegal migrants in the past.

Mexico has also deployed 6,000 National Guardsmen to their southern border to stop Central American migrants going through their nation to get to the US.

“Given that migration is not a crime but rather an administrative violation, we simply detain them and turn them over to the authorities” Sandoval added.

The news comes as a June poll from the Mexican newspaper ElUniversal found that 61.5% of Mexicans want their government to stop allowing migrants from other nations travel through their country to get to the United States.

The number from ElUniversal’s June survey was a significant increase from the 49% who wanted to stop the flow of migrants in October 2018.

The newspaper also reported that the majority of Mexican citizens, 53.7%, do not support granting work visas to Central American migrants — a move that has been pushed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Another 44.4% want illegal migrants to be immediately deported.

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