Migrants continue to arrive to Mexico’s northern and southern border, Mexico’s President said
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) -- Migrant numbers on the border continue to go down, according to Juarez authorities. Juarez continues to see a decrease in migrants after they were not allowed to travel on trains to the border.
The Mexican president has now confirmed the number of migrants that arrive at both Mexico's southern and northern border.
Juarez mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar said numbers have gone down fairly well recently. All shelters in the city continue to work under capacity, including the new temporary shelter that opened two weeks ago.
Shelters have availability right now but authorities don't know how long this decrease in numbers will last. Juarez continues to be assisted by the National Institute of Migration in the city shelters.
He also said the trend they've been seeing lately is expected to remain in place until the upcoming winter season as fewer migrants will be coming to the border, but this can change at any time.
Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador held a meeting with different Central and South American presidents and officials to work with the migrant situation.
In a morning news conference, López Obrador said migrant numbers have not gone down drastically.
Thousands of migrants continue to arrive in Mexico, but we're not seeing the numbers we saw in last month's surge.
President López Obrador spoke about those numbers in a morning news conference.
López Obrador said around six thousand migrants are arriving at Mexico's southern border daily.
And eight thousand migrants arrive at the northern border every day as well.
Mexico's president met with presidents of Central and South American countries that are seeing high amounts of emigration.
That included Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Honduras, among other countries.
They agreed to help each other to stop the flow of migrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border.
One proposal the presidents offered was to have some sort of economic aid for development that assisted people in their home countries.
This is to prevent migrants from wanting to leave their home countries in the first place.
