How Mexico Is Trying to Placate Trump on Migration
Published on: Monday 22 July 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump used to promise that Mexico would pay for a new wall on the border of the two countries. That hasn’t happened. Now Trump wants Mexico at least to act like a wall, by doing more to keep Central American migrants away from the U.S. With the number of people seeking asylum globally at record levels, due to violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan and parts of Africa as well as Central America, similar debates are happening around the world.