Mexican government watchdog concerned about National Guard's detaining migrants

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Mexican government watchdog concerned about National Guard's detaining migrants
Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s newly created National Guard has detained U.S.-bound migrants and the government should make public the rules governing their power to curb immigration, the head of the government’s human rights ombudsman said on Monday.

The National Guard is a security force created by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to bring down record homicide rates. But now it has been tasked with patrolling the border to placate U.S. President Donald Trump, who threatened to slap tariffs on Mexican imports unless the country did more to stem the flow of Central American migrants heading to the United States.

“Publishing the protocols and coordination rules under which the National Guard operates in support of immigration authorities, particularly regarding the procedures for detaining persons with an illegal immigration status, is desirable,” Luis Raul Gonzalez, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), said in a speech. “If such protocols and rules don’t exist, establishing and publishing them is an urgent matter.”

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