How Mexico treats migrants from other countries

Washington Times:

Migrants from elsewhere in Latin America, considered felons by the government, fear robbery and rape at the hands of corrupt police.
While immigrants in the United States have held huge demonstrations in recent weeks, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Central Americans in Mexico suffer mostly in silence.
Although Mexico demands humane treatment for its citizens who migrate to the United States, regardless of their legal status, Mexico provides few protections for migrants on its own soil.
The level of brutality Central American migrants face in Mexico was apparent Monday, when police conducting a raid for illegal aliens near a rail yard outside Mexico City fatally shot a local man, apparently because his dark skin and work clothes made officers think he was a migrant.
Virginia Sanchez, who lives near the railroad tracks that carry Central Americans north to the U.S. border, said such shootings in Tultitlan are common.
"At night, you hear the gunshots, and it's the [state police] chasing the migrants," she said. "It's not fair to kill these people. It's not fair in the United States, and it's not fair here."
Undocumented Central Americans complain much more about how they are treated by Mexican officials than about authorities on the U.S. side of the border, where aliens may resent being caught but often praise the professionalism of the agents scouring the desert for their trail.
"If you're carrying any money, [Mexicans] take it from you -- federal, state, local police, all of them," said Carlos Lopez, a 28-year-old farmhand from Guatemala crouching in a field near the tracks in Tultitlan, waiting to climb onto a northbound freight train.

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The rule of law in Mexico does not even apply to the police. It is why Mexico will remain a poor place for many and place for many to leave. The OTM's (other than Mexican) also get special treatment in the US. They get rapid deportation out of the country. So their migration efforts involve evading authorities crossing Mexico as best as possible and hope that it will not all be for naught as they cross into the promise land.