Mexican Corruption Helps Propel the Central American Exodus
By Jerry Kammer on June 11, 2019
The Wall Street Journal posted a story yesterday that offers both encouragement and a caveat to those who are counting on Mexico to help contain the exodus of Central Americans to the United States. "Police Check Buses, Trains in Migrant Crackdown" reads the headline above the story, which quotes a just-detained Guatemalan saying "Mexico doesn't want us here anymore."
The story concludes with a cautionary note about corrupt Mexican officials at roadside checkpoints that dot the route northward. The officials take bribes from migrants traveling on commercial buses. "If the checkpoints were working as they are supposed to rather than just as a way of generating bribes, that would work," says Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America.
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