Mexico Is The Wall

MEXICO CITY—Tension intensified Monday at Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala as thousands of Central American migrants forded the shallow waters of the Suchiate River in an attempt to continue their march to the U.S.

Mexican security forces used tear gas to break up a group of about 2,000 migrants, most of them Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence, who attempted to enter Mexico after being denied access on Saturday and earlier Monday.

Later in the day, migrants threw bottles and rocks at National Guard officers. Some of them managed to breach the security cordon and ran into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo. But most were contained on the Mexican side of the river and in the middle of the river, left bare by shallow waters. Others opted to return to shelters in the Guatemalan town of Tecún Umán, residents said.

A group with hundreds of migrants who managed to cross into Mexico and continued the journey on foot toward the U.S., some 1,200 miles away, was later detained by Mexican authorities.

“It’s been total chaos,” said Jeremías Estrada, a Mexican farmer who lives in Ciudad Hidalgo. “Most couldn’t cross into Mexico, but the National Guard had to work really hard.”

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More than 500 members of the newly created National Guard, which is under military command and was initially formed to tackle drug cartels, were sent in recent days to southern Mexico to contain the caravan that left from Honduras last week.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sent mixed messages to the migrants. Last week, he offered them access to some 4,000 jobs in Mexico if they entered the country in a peaceful way and registered with immigration authorities. But on Sunday, Mexico’s immigration agency said that the majority of more than 1,000 migrants who had complied with the government’s instructions would be sent back to their home country. The government also said last week it wouldn’t allow the group to enter illegally.

Mr. López Obrador, who welcomed migrants to Mexico during his first few months in office, reversed course last year after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap Mexico with import tariffs. After U.S. and Mexican officials reached a deal on tougher immigration policies over the summer, Mr. López Obrador quickly became a close ally of the American president in his efforts to reduce illegal migration.

Since then, Mexican authorities haven’t allowed caravans to cross the country as thousands of Central American migrants did in 2018. Instead, Mr. Lopez Obrador deployed 20,000 National Guard members—almost a fourth of the force—to block migrants along Mexico’s southern and northern borders. Mexico also stepped up detentions and deportations and increased road checkpoints and migrant raids on hotels, trains, buses and safe houses.