The US has held talks with Mexico to try to contain the flow to the border they share (Photo: Cuban newspaper)
Mexico increased the deployment of security forces on the southern border of its country, as part of efforts to try to stop the growing number of immigrants arriving from Central America to cross the country and enter the United States.
According to the agency Reuters, the news was released by White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki. The official explained that Mexico maintains a deployment of 10,000 soldiers on its southern border, a higher number than that country had previously announced.
Reuters reported that during last March Mexico had intensified the raids to detain immigrants who were transiting illegally to the United States, and had redoubled its efforts on the border with Guatemala.
The operations have included members of the National Guard, soldiers and immigration officials. On March 22, the Mexican government announced that it had 8,815 members of the National Guard on its northern and southern borders.
Psaki assured that the reinforced deployment on the southern border of Mexico has allowed the daily detentions of migrants to have doubled.
In this regard, a member of the Mexican National Guard deployed in the area said that the rate of daily arrests of the force had doubled in recent weeks.
Just days before Biden arrived at the White House, Guatemala deployed security forces to intercept a caravan of immigrants traveling to the United States. Since then, Guatemalan government officials have promised to keep up the pressure.
The Joe Biden administration secured agreements for Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to place more troops on their borders, according to the announcement also issued this Monday by White House adviser Tyler Moran, who appeared to refer to the deployments that occurred in March.
However, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said it had no information on the matter, while the governments of Mexico and Honduras did not respond to requests for comment from the press.