Mexico is stopping some asylum-seekers from crossing bridges into the United States
Texas Tribune · 4 hours ago
U.S. officials have been keeping migrants from crossing bridges. Now, Mexico is doing the same.
Advocates and lawyers on both sides of the border say this increased immigration enforcement from Mexican officials may be the result of cartel influence, politics or the United States itself.
BY TEO ARMUS OCT. 12, 2018 4 HOURS AGO
REYNOSA, Mexico — It was the third time Ingrid had tried to make it across an international bridge into Texas.
The first time, she said, Mexican officials stopped her on the bridge into Laredo and demanded that she pay $1,500 for her and her two children to cross into the United States, where she planned to seek asylum.
A few weeks later, they barred Ingrid — a Mexican permanent resident born in Guatemala, with Mexican-born children — from passing the turnstiles to cross the bridge into Hidalgo, threatening to deport her and rip up her
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