Mexico faces migration crises on northern, southern borders

Complicating Mexican officials’ efforts to address immigration issues is an ‘unusual avalanche’ of asylum seekers from Haiti.

Mexico has faced immigration pressures from the north, south and within its own borders in recent weeks, putting it in an increasingly difficult position. Thousands of migrants continue to cross its southern border, the United States sends thousands more back from the north and there is the renewed prospect of the US making asylum seekers wait in Mexico for long periods. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Thursday the strategy of containing migrants in the south was untenable on its own and more investment is needed in the region to keep Central Americans from leaving their homes.