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Mexico's Immigration Control Efforts (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised March 13, 2023
Report Number IF10215
Report Type In Focus
Authors Clare Ribando Seelke
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

In 2014 the United States and Mexico experienced an unprecedented surge in undocumented migration of unaccompanied children and family units from Central America. In response, Mexico greatly increased its immigration enforcement efforts while also increasing technical assistance to consular agencies in those countries. In 2014, Mexico’s Secretariat of Government (SEGOB) removed 104,269 migrants who came from the “northern triangle” (El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) of Central America. Some 17,921 of those migrants were minors. According to the Migration Policy Institute, Mexico removed 77 out of every 100 child migrants apprehended in 2014; the U.S. government removed three. In January 2015, President Obama praised Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for his government’s increased immigration enforcement efforts.