Mexican border crackdown takes heat out of Trump’s migrant jibes


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  • Monday, 28 Oct 2024

Mexican authorities stand guard after a report was received alerting of a migrant who was drowning while crossing the river, near the border between Mexico and the United States, ahead of the U.S. presidential elections in November, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, September 19, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - At a remote military checkpoint in the Mexican desert some 25 miles (40 km) 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.

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