Mexico president says there may have been 'excesses' in migrant detentions
6/25/2019 4:32:24 PM
(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday the country's new militarized National Guard police force could have committed "excesses" by detaining migrant women close to the US border, and that they had not been instructed to do so.
Mexico has not traditionally used security forces to stop undocumented foreign citizens leaving the country for the United States.
Lopez Obrador faced repeated questions at a news conference on Tuesday about photographs that emerged last week of the National Guard catching Central American and Cuban women in Ciudad Juarez, which border El Paso, Texas.
The photographs showed National Guard members, some armed with rifles, chasing female migrants and detaining them on the Mexican side of the border. Lopez Obrador said they had not been instructed to carry out such detentions.
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For the record, MENA is Middle East/North Africa, not sure why they have this article bu it's surely accurate.
Reuters story originally:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/mexico-president-says-there-may-have-been-excesses-in-migrant-detentions/ar-AADpcol
