How Illegal Immigrants Are End-Running Mexico’s Vaunted National Guard Cordon
And why President Biden’s costly investment to have Mexico secure its Guatemala border may never work
By Todd Bensman on March 29, 2021
CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico — With virtual diplomacy, an in-person delegation, and taxpayer cash, President Joe Biden has tried to induce Mexico to halt a fast-rising flood of immigration across its southern border as a means to ease the mounting mass-migration crisis on the U.S. southern border.
But the strategic linchpin upon which the administration has put all its betting chips — the continued deployment of nearly 9,000 Mexican national guard troops along the Guatemala border and at 50 road checkpoints throughout southern Mexico — is proving systemically beatable. The evidence can be found in the thousands of people now staging for U.S. entries from northern Mexican cities like Acuna, who obviously bypassed the national guard.
Their stories of bypassing the Mexican military in the southern provinces, gathered by the Center for Immigration Studies in interviews, reveal a military operation hobbled by corruption and bureaucratic ineptitude.
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