The migrant caravan that left Tapachula, Mexico, on January 2, bound for the US, has been broken up by Mexican officials. Facing the threat of tariffs, Mexico’s government has used a policy of “dispersion and exhaustion” to reduce the numbers of illegals headed to the border. That policy consists of allowing the migrants to “walk for days until they’re exhausted” and then offer them bus rides to various Mexican cities.
One such city is Acapulco, a resort town on Mexico’s Pacific coast, once a tourist hotspot but now suffering from a high murder rate and plagued by organized crime. Busloads of migrants are being dropped off there “with little support and few options,” they say. The migrants tell the Associated Press they had been lured to the city with promises that they could continue on to the border, but were instead abandoned. On Monday of this week, migrants were seen sleeping in tents and heard expressing fears of kidnapping and extortion by drug cartels.
Incoming President Trump has warned Mexico City that it will face tariffs of 25% on Mexican imported goods if they do not do more to stem the invasion that has continued throughout the Biden administration. The threat seems to have been taken seriously.
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