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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: TomSea on June 15, 2019, 04:26:48 pm

Title: Mexico's Migration Chief Abruptly Resigns
Post by: TomSea on June 15, 2019, 04:26:48 pm
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Mexico's Migration Chief Abruptly Resigns
June 14, 20196:02 PM ET
Richard Gonzales at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The president of Mexico's National Migration Institute, the government agency that controls and supervises migration, resigned Friday.

In a brief statement, the institute announced that Tonatiuh Guillén Lopez presented his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Guillén Lopez, who thanked the Mexican president for the opportunity to serve the country, had been commissioner of the migration agency since December.

The statement did not give a reason for the resignation.

Read more at: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732857122/mexicos-migration-chief-abruptly-resigns (https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732857122/mexicos-migration-chief-abruptly-resigns)
Title: Re: Mexico's Migration Chief Abruptly Resigns
Post by: libertybele on June 15, 2019, 08:53:09 pm


Not very long at his job.  My guess is the new and improved migration policies with the U.S. are more than he wants to handle.
Title: Re: Mexico's Migration Chief Abruptly Resigns
Post by: Fishrrman on June 15, 2019, 10:30:22 pm
Guess he couldn't balance doing his job (on one hand) and taking bribes from the cartels (on the other)...
Title: Re: Mexico's Migration Chief Abruptly Resigns
Post by: libertybele on June 16, 2019, 12:28:18 am
Guess he couldn't balance doing his job (on one hand) and taking bribes from the cartels (on the other)...

Let's see now ... Mexico's migration chief resigns ... and the newly appointed immigration czar for the U.S. hasn't accepted the position.  Gee, nothing like getting off to a great start! /s
Title: Re: Mexico's Migration Chief Abruptly Resigns
Post by: Sanguine on June 16, 2019, 02:03:17 am
Guess he couldn't balance doing his job (on one hand) and taking bribes from the cartels (on the other)...

I think that's a job requirement.