Mexico moves migrants from US border ahead of Trump’s second term

[Karah]

WITH ONLY A COUPLE WEEKS UNTIL PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP’S SECOND INAUGURATION … MEXICO IS WORKING TO MOVE MIGRANT CARAVANS AWAY FROM THE U-S BORDER.

MEXICAN OFFICIALS TELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THEY’RE USING A “DISPERSION AND EXHAUSTION” METHOD TO SPREAD THE MIGRANTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY … WHILE LIMITING HOW MANY GATHER IN ONE PLACE . 

IT’S A STRATEGY THEY’VE USED THE PAST FEW YEARS TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS REACHING THE BORDER … WITH MEXICO’S CURRENT ADMINISTRATION HOPING TO  DEFEND AGAINST TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICIES INCLUDING HIS PROMISE TO CARRY OUT MASS DEPORTATIONS AND THREATS OF INCREASED TARIFFS IF MEXICO DOES NOT HELP ALLEVIATE THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS ENTERING THE U-S ILLEGALLY.

MEXICAN PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM RECENTLY ANNOUNCED A POLICY REVERSAL, SAYING MEXICO IS OPEN TO ACCEPTING FOREIGN NATIONALS INSTEAD OF PUSHING THE U-S TO SEND THEM TO THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN.  THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS EVEN PROMISED TO OPEN 25 NEW SHELTERS FOR DEPORTED MIGRANTS.

THE A-P REPORTS DOZENS OF MIGRANTS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES WERE SPOTTED WALKING AROUND AND SLEEPING ON THE STREETS OF ACAPULCO MONDAY … WITH ONE MIGRANT TELLING THE A-P THAT OFFICIALS SAID THEY WERE GOING TO GIVE THEM A PERMIT TO MOVE THROUGH THE COUNTRY ON THEIR TRIP NORTH, BUT THAT TURNED OUT TO NOT BE THE CASE … SAYING THE CITY WON’T SELL THEM BUS TICKETS … AND NOW THEY’RE STUCK THERE. 

MEANWHILE, SOURCES IN MEXICO TELL NEWS NATION A CARAVAN OF MOSTLY VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS IS NOW MAKING A TRIP FROM THE SOUTHERN MEXICAN CITY OF TAPACHULA TO JUAREZ – LOCATED JUST MILES FROM THE U-S BORDER AND EL PASO, TEXAS.

MEXICAN IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES SAY THEY EXPECT TO SEE EVEN MORE CARAVANS IN THE COMING DAYS … AS TRUMP’S SECOND TERM GETS CLOSER AND BEFORE HIS PROMISED IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT CRACKDOWN BEGINS. .

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