Measures followed US pressure, including trade route closures. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
At a remote military checkpoint in the Mexican desert some 25 miles south of the border city of Ciudad Juarez, immigration agents bundled dozens of migrants onto a bus headed south on a hot night in September.
Hundreds of scenes like this one, witnessed on Sept. 24 by a Reuters reporter, form part of Mexico’s largest ever migration crackdown.
Partly as a result of Mexico’s efforts, the number of migrants caught by US authorities at the border in recent months fell sharply to the lowest level since 2020, taking some heat out of an issue on which will play a major role in next week's US presidential election.
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