TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - On Saturday, at the busiest crossing point along Mexico's porous southern border with Guatemala, evidence of Mexico's promised crackdown on waves of new arrivals trying to reach the United States was nowhere to be seen. However, most of that activity has taken place further from the border between Chiapas state and Guatemala. For now, the decades' old business of ferrying people across the river to dodge usual passport controls has not been interrupted. Chiapas security officials and Mexico's interior ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tapachula, a first stop for many migrants on their journey north, was overflowing with migrants, from Central America, Cuba and elsewhere.

Source: The Star June 09, 2019 02:26 UTC