Mexico starting to thwart caravans of migrants headed to US

 Washington Examiner:

Four migrant caravans that departed southern Mexico in November have struggled to make it out of the region due to blockades by the Mexican government along the route north.

Migrants from South America, the Caribbean, and Central America who traveled up to Mexico and intended to continue on to the United States's southern border have faced major setbacks caravaning through the country, even as Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, has claimed that the caravans are well on their way.

Mexico strategically placed checkpoints and boosted its law enforcement and military presence on roads that are the most popular routes from southern Mexico up to the southern tip of Texas in an effort to encounter caravans and migrants headed north, said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington.

Many migrants had hoped to make it to northern Mexico, where jobs and housing are more readily available than in southern Mexico, Reuters reported Tuesday. But the Mexican government's federal police and military have prevented many from making it through. Ruiz Soto does not believe the majority of caravan members who departed in November will make it past Mexico City.

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Mexico is doing a better job than Biden.  It has also recently agreed to renew the remain in Mexico policy of Trump that has been reinstated by court order over Biden's objection.  The Texas border effort has also resulted in arrests for trafficking and for trespassing.  Biden remains irresponsible and his policy is worthy of impeachment.

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