Forces have no orders to detain migrants, AMLO says, after photos create a stir
But the national defense chief said on Monday they are being arrested and turned over to Immigration Published on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Federal security forces deployed to the northern border have no orders to detain migrants, President López Obrador said yesterday.
The president’s assertion came in response to questioning over photographs published by the news agency AFP that show heavily armed National Guard troops stopping two migrant women and a girl from crossing the border into the United States from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Under international law, migrants have the right to cross borders to seek asylum, and Mexico had not typically prevented them from doing so at the border with the United States.
Speaking at his daily press conference, López Obrador denied that the National Guard or the army have been issued with orders to arrest migrants trying to cross the northern border.
“No such order has been issued, and we are going to review that case, so that it doesn’t happen again, because that’s not our job,†he said.
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