For US-bound Central American migrants, better to stay in Mexico than be sent home | World News, The Indian Express

For US-bound Central American migrants, better to stay in Mexico than be sent home | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Mexico |Published: June 16, 2019 10:04:24 am

For US-bound Central American migrants, better to stay in Mexico than be sent home

Mexico is ramping up security on its southern border with Guatemala as part of an agreement with Washington after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods if the government did not stem the flow of migrants reaching the United States.

A girl walks inside a bedroom at the Agape World Mission shelter used mostly by Mexican and Central American migrants who are applying for asylum in the US. (AP)

Many of the Central Americans who lined up for papers at an asylum office in southern Mexico said they could abandon plans to reach the United States and remain in Mexico if US President Donald Trump clamps down further on migration.