Mexico’s migrant crackdown influences the U.S. election

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At the northern border of Mexico, immigration agents bundled dozens of migrants onto buses headed south.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00At the northern border of Mexico, immigration agents bundle dozens of migrants onto buses

00:09headed south.

00:10Hundreds of scenes like this make up Mexico's largest-ever push to contain migration, encompassing

00:16a growing program to bus and fly migrants to southern Mexico far from the U.S. border,

00:22along with widespread detentions and administrative obstacles.

00:27Mexico is buzzing a third more migrants to its southern states this year, previously

00:31unreported data shows.

00:34Partly as a result of Mexico's efforts, the number of migrants caught at the U.S. border

00:38in recent months fell to the lowest level since 2020, taking some heat out of a major

00:43election issue.

00:46However, people are only pushed back to the southern frontier of Mexico, and without addressing

00:54the social roots of migration in Central and South America, neither the dangers people

00:59face in their countries or in Mexico during their travel, the issue won't be solved.

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