BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In a press gaggle before heading off to California to boast of his new-but-not-new wall on Friday [4-5-19] President Donald Trump said that Mexico had recently increased its apprehension of migrants in response to his threat of shutting down the US southern border…During an April 4 radio interview, Tonatiuh Guillén, commissioner of Mexico’s National Migration Institute, said that during the first two days of April, Mexican immigration agents apprehended 1,259 undocumented immigrants. If that number were to stay consistent throughout the month, apprehensions would hit 18,885 during April. Mexican authorities apprehended 12,746 migrants during the whole month of March, Guillén said. That’s up from 9,894 apprehensions in February, according to Guillén, and about 7,500 in January. Guillén noted these numbers are similar to monthly figures from 2018 and are much higher than in 2017. Guillén said that Mexico has seen a spike in families of migrants traveling through the country, particularly women and children. He estimated that an average of 350,000 Central Americans cross Mexico each year. A DHS official tells CNN that Mexico has recently been apprehending as high as 1,000 migrants a day and removing 700. DHS says this is double the levels of last week.”
–Holmes Lybrand, “Mexico is apprehending more migrants. Is it because of Trump?,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 5, 2019 7:29 pm