Reuters
Mexico detains almost half a million migrants heading to US in last quarter
Mexican security forces have detained about 475,000 irregular migrants since October, authorities said on Friday, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatens Mexico with tariffs unless it stops illegal migrants from arriving at the shared border. “We think it’s a model that works, that can always be improved, but that has responded very satisfactorily to this (migration) phenomenon,” Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said on Friday. Speaking alongside President Claudia Sheinbaum at her regular press conference, he said the number of migrants detained at the shared border fell 81% in mid-December when compared to a year earlier.