EXPLAINER: Mexico confronts complex position on immigration

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is facing migration pressures from the north, southbound and wrong its ain borders, putting it successful an progressively hard position.

Thousands of migrants proceed to transverse its confederate border, the United States is sending thousands much backmost from the northbound and there’s the renewed imaginable of the U.S. making asylum seekers hold successful Mexico for agelong periods of time.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this week that the strategy of containing migrants successful the southbound is untenable connected its ain and much concern needed to beryllium made to support radical from leaving their homes.