MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government is worried the new U.S. administration's asylum policies are stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime, according to officials and internal assessments seen by Reuters.
"We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can't be tackled from one day to the next." Recent Mexican policies are also encouraging migration, according to one assessment. It saw potential fillips in measures such as offering COVID-19 vaccines to migrants, as well as better protections for undocumented children.One Mexican official familiar with migration developments, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said organized crime began changing its modus operandi "from the day Biden took office" and now exhibited "unprecedented" levels of sophistication.
Higher concentrations of migrants in border areas have encouraged gangs to recruit some as drug mules, and kidnap others for money, said Cesar Peniche, attorney general of Chihuahua, the state with the longest stretch of U.S. frontier.
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