Mexico treats illegal immigrants worse...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/15/immigrants-mexico-abused-kidnapped/85798440/
“TEQUISQUIAPAN, Mexico — Hernandez Martinez came to Mexico to escape a brutal drug cartel in Honduras, but his treatment in Mexico isn’t much better. On May 30, local police robbed him and then threw him and five other migrants from Central America off of a moving train in this town about 100 miles northeast of Mexico City.”
Journalist who wrote the OP has no moral sense.
It is the NY Times. You repeat yourself when you note that the "Journalist" has mo moral sense.