Mexico Once Saw Migration as a U.S. Problem. Now It Needs Answers of Its Own.

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Mexico Once Saw Migration as a U.S. Problem. Now It Needs Answers of Its Own.

By Kirk Semple


TIJUANA, Mexico — After taking the oath of office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador addressed Mexico’s Congress on Saturday, covering all the hallmarks of his Mexico-first politics: combating poverty, social development, strengthening the rule of law and attacking corruption.

Notably absent from his speech was a specific reference to one of the most pressing matters of his young administration: the thousands of migrants who traveled through the region in caravans and are now gathered in Tijuana, at the Mexico-United States border.

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