Bound for United States, Central Americans Begin to Settle in Mexico Agencia EFE
go to original February 9, 2014

Two Hondurans prepare to board "The Beast," the Mexican train that travels through the northern Mexican region of San Luis Potosi to the United States border. (EFE)

Central American migrants who set out from their countries intending to reach the United States have begun to settle in Mexico, indicating a new migratory phenomenon, experts say.

"This is new," Gustavo Mohar Betancourt, Mexico's former undersecretary of Population, Migration, and Religious Affairs, told Efe.

"We notice they are settling in central Mexican cities like Guadalajara, Aguascalientes and Queretaro. On the border there are more and more (Central American migrants) in Tijuana," Mohar, now a private consultant, said.

When he addressed the "Managing Borders in North America: Charting the Future" conference, he said that some municipal governments, such as that of Tijuana - next door to San Diego, California - have begun to protest about this migratory phenomenon.

"It's basically people from Honduras and El Salvador," Mohar said, adding that the situation should be treated as a "yellow light" to reflect its threat level.

"In Tijuana," he said, "those who can't cross over to the United States are staying here, and there are more of them stranded here all the time."

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