MEXICO CITY (AP) — Faced with an increasing flow of Central American migrants north, Mexico plans to set up a “containment” belt of federal forces across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is the narrowest part of the country’s south and the easiest to control, a senior government official said Wednesday.
Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero said the situation is complicated by a caravan of roughly 2,500 migrants heading north and fears of a much larger “mother caravan” possibly forming in Honduras.
Sanchez Cordero did not provide more details about how the federal forces would be deployed, but she stressed it would not mean the militarization of Mexico’s border with Guatemala.