Mexico asks UN for help in dealing with Central American migrants

Washington Times:
Mexico has asked the United Nations for assistance with the migrant caravan knocking on its border, saying international officials must help figure out who deserves asylum and who should be deported or refused entry.

Hundreds of Mexican police faced off Thursday across the Mexico-Guatemala border against the vanguard of the caravan, which has grown to some 4,000 people, mostly from Honduras. Some migrants reportedly made it to shelters in Mexico.

Mexican officials were desperately trying to block the migrants after President Trump threatened Thursday to cancel his proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal as punishment for Mexico’s failure to patrol its southern border.

He said another option would be to deploy the U.S. military.

“The assault on our country at our Southern Border, including the criminal elements and DRUGS pouring in, is far more important to me, as president, than trade or the USMCA,” he tweeted. “Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught.”

That demand put Mexico between an unstoppable force — the migrants, who are backed by human rights activists — and an immovable object: Mr. Trump.
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Will the transnational UN be of any help in enforcing borders?  Many of its members are part of a movement to do away with borders altogether.  Can they send in the blue helmets in time to respond to the invasion?  I would not bet on it.  At least the Mexican government is finally acting to stop the migration at a better choke point than the US border.

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