Mexico's National Guard, accused of being heavy-handed in its efforts to cu...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Mexico’s National Guard, accused of being heavy-handed in its efforts to curb migrant flows, employed a lighter touch on the U.S. border on Tuesday after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said they did not have orders to detain migrants.
The photographs showed National Guard members, some armed with rifles, chasing female migrants and detaining them on the Mexican side of the border. Lopez Obrador said they had not been instructed to carry out such detentions. The focus on rights follows other complaints of rough behavior as the new, militarized police force was diverted from fighting cartel crime to containing a wave of mostly Central American migration that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten tariffs on Mexican goods if the flow is not curbed.
Earlier, Lopez Obrador said National Guard members could have committed “excesses” by detaining migrant women close to the U.S. border, and that they had not been instructed to do so.
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