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Photos: Mexico’s Efforts to Slow the Flow of Immigrants at its Southern Border (25 photos)

Mexico recently deployed 6,500 members of its newly-formed National Guard to its southern states, along the border with Guatemala. Responding to pressures from the Trump administration, and to stresses placed on its own citizens by the constant flow of Central American, Cuban, Haitian, and African immigrants bound for the U.S., the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is still building a response. Obrador stated that Mexico is trying to continue to help those fleeing poverty and violence at home, while still working to increase security and tighten border controls. Along the border, interceptions, detentions and deportations of immigrants are increasing, straining Mexico’s already-overtaxed capacity to hold detainees and process asylum seekers.Photos: Mexico’s Efforts to Slow the Flow of Immigrants at its Southern Border

A girl waits to be given asylum or a humanitarian visa at the immigration office on the Mexico-Guatemala international bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas State, Mexico, on June 6, 2019. ( Pedro Pardo / AFP / Getty)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/06/photos-mexicos-efforts-slow-flow-immigrants-its-southern-border/592633/