With Trump’s return looming, Mexico drops migrants in troubled Acapulco, dispersed far from U.S. border
LA TimesMigrants sleep on the side of a street in Acapulco, Mexico, on Monday. Two weeks ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Mexico continues dissolving attention-grabbing migrant caravans and dispersing migrants throughout the country to keep them far from the U.S. border, while simultaneously limiting how many accumulate in any one place. The policy of “dispersion and exhaustion” has become the center of the Mexican government’s immigration policy in recent years and last year succeeded in significantly reducing the number of migrants reaching the U.S. border, said Tonatiuh Guillén, former chief of Mexico’s immigration agency. “Immigration told us they were going to give us a permit to transit the country freely for 10, 15 days, and it wasn’t like that,” said a 28-year-old Venezuelan, Ender Antonio Castañeda. They won’t sell us tickets, they won’t sell us anything.” Castañeda, like thousands of other migrants, had left the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border.
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