Mexico says it will set up 17 shelters for underage migrants along the country’s southern border, as well as some along the northern border with the U.S. The announcement comes amid a wave of child migrants coming from Central America.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico said Wednesday it is planning to set up 17 shelters for underage migrants along the country’s southern border, as well as some along the northern border with the United States, amid a wave of child migrants coming from Central America.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that the situation is “very worrisome” and the expanded capacity was needed to look out for the welfare of the minors. More of interest to the United States would be the five shelters Mexico may set up along its northern border. The U.S. has been limited in recent months in its ability to return families with children to Mexico, because Mexico doesn’t have sufficient shelter capacity to receive them.In the northern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico’s child welfare agency already operates four shelters for unaccompanied minors, which have handled 2,314 children so far this year.
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