Before Migrants Reach U.S., Mexico Deports Central Americans in Record Numbers James Fredrick - NPR.org
go to original August 27, 2016

Migrants use a makeshift raft to cross the Suchiate river, natural border between Mexico and Guatemala, in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)

The idea of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has dominated the U.S. presidential election. But efforts in Mexico barring Central Americans from traveling north might be doing the job of a wall.



Central Americans who are running away from violence in their home countries now run into a dragnet of migration enforcement long before the United States border. They're getting caught in Mexico and being deported in record numbers, more than a quarter million in the last two years.

As James Fredrick reports from Mexico City, Central Americans are scrambling to make sure they are not sent back to their violent homes.

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