US Outsources Migrant Crackdown to Mexico - The Wednesday AM Quickie 6/12/24

By Jacob Silverman — Jun 12, 2024

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THE BIG NEWS

The US Is Outsourcing Its Migrant Crackdown to Mexico

President Joe Biden has embraced draconian, Trump-like border policies, including his recent order potentially shutting down asylum requests. But the effort to stem the flow of migrants starts far south of the border and increasingly involves Mexican law enforcement and security forces detaining, abusing, and removing migrants. According to a new Associated Press investigation, "Mexican authorities are employing a simple but harsh tactic: wearing migrants out until they give up."

In practice, that means arresting migrants throughout the country – in cities and villages, traveling on buses, even walking by the side of the road – and shipping them south. Many are dumped in the southern towns of Villahermosa and Tapachula. The program apparently has worked, reducing encounters at the US-Mexico border by as much as 40 percent.

The violent crackdown may have slowed some migrants, but it hasn't stopped them. After being dumped in southern Mexico – often after being abused or robbed – many migrants simply start the trek again or look for work so that they might afford another attempt at the journey north.

“I would rather cross the Darien Gap 10,000 times than cross Mexico,” one young woman told the AP.

It's not just Mexico where the United States has looked to allies to do its dirty work in discouraging migration. In recent months, the Darien Gap, a dangerous passage between Panama and Colombia that has become a central conduit for migrants, received so much attention that a wave of right-wing influencers went down there to propagandize against migrants, casting them as dangerous invaders. Panama's newly elected president said that he would close the Darien Gap, through which half a million people traveled last year. The US relationship with El Salvador's self-styled dictator Nayib Bukele has also warmed over cooperation on migration. If the Biden administration is determined to choke off the asylum system, it will need the continued help of Latin America's leaders.

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-- Sandy Hook shooting survivor Emma Ehrens, who will graduate high school today alongside 60 other survivors of the 2012 attack. In interviews with the AP, the students spoke of living with the trauma of surviving the worst school shooting in US history, how Sandy Hook later became a protective "bubble" for them, and their hopes for the future.

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