AFP: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador said Monday that the flow of migrants arriving at the border with the
United States had halved in recent months, from its peak in December.
“We had a crisis on the northern border in December of 12,000 migrants a day and we made a joint effort and (numbers) reduced on average to 6,000, a reduction of 50 percent in four months,” the president told journalists.
Many thousands of migrants fleeing violence and poverty cross Mexico every year heading for the US border. On December 18 last year, 12,498 encounters between migrants and US border agents were reported at the border.