Government Appoints Czar To Manage Central American Migrant Crisis in Mexico Fox News Latino
go to original July 16, 2014

Mexican officer Hugo Rivera looks out toward the Guatemalan border. “While Mexico’s northern border is more problematic, here it’s pretty peaceful,” he said.  (Nathaniel Parish Flannery)

In response to the mounting pressure from the United States government, the Mexican government has appointed a czar to take charge of the largely unimpeded migration from Central America headed north.

The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that Mexico’s Interior Minister Miguel Angel Orosio Chong said the new system would guarantee the safety of migrants as well as their eventual repatriation.

He appointed Humberto Mayans, a senator from his Institutional Revolutionary Party, as head of the agency that would work independently from the Interior Ministry.

Osorio called on the mayors and governors along the migration route to cooperate with federal authorities to stem the flow of migrants going through.

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