This measure further closes access to the United States, and indirectly urges Mexico to contain the migratory flow through its territory.
Mexican security forces have done their part by surrounding migrant smugglers through intelligence and financial monitoring, but especially with a vast military deployment in the extreme south and north of the country, experts on the subject explain.
“The fact that we see a truck with such a large number of people (160 people) in broad daylight is too challenging,” says Leticia Calderón, a researcher on migrant issues at the Mora Institute.
The expert points out that the Mexican strategy is led and implemented by the military, whose military logic is effective to carry out operations and control the territory.
But this action not only hurts the criminals, but also corners the migrants who are persecuted and without major legal solutions, considers Calderón.
For Irineo Mujica, leader of the migrant caravans -another weakened way to achieve the American dream- the southern state of Chiapas, where the majority of undocumented immigrants enter and the scene of the tragedy, “has become the migrant’s grave.” .
The containment policy in this region “has caused overcrowding and forces people like never before to put their lives in maximum danger,” says the activist, harshly criticized by the United States.
In 2020, the government of the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador launched measures for migrants to remain on the southern border, arguing that it was safer than the northern border where they could be victims of bloodthirsty drug cartels.
Calderón proposes alternatives typical of the civil authority such as Mexico recognizing new immigration status and granting documents, regardless of whether the beneficiaries decide to remain in the country.
On the side of the criminals, the expert believes that the intense military stalking leads them to apply a “business” criterion of taking the risk of sending the largest number of trucks with overcrowded migrants, knowing that some will be detained or lost.
“At the end of the day, the profit remains,” explains Calderón, who recognizes the need to go after the mafias but without falling into mere “police logic.”
For Enrique Vidal, a member of the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center in Tapachula, Chiapas, migrants have no alternative but to take the risk of traveling with the mafias.
On top of that, López Obrador’s militarized strategy persecutes and accuses them, alleges Vidal.
“The focus is being placed on the people themselves and not on the mafias, without recognizing them as victims of both organized crime and the government itself,” he adds.
Source From: Ambito
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