Missed the key reasons, buried deep. Honduran citizen, through Guatemala, violent husband, gang threatening to kill her child.
Guatemala and then Mexico are the first countries she entered, the places she is supposed to seek refuge. They speak her language there, and their culture is closer to her own.
WTF is Mexico grandstanding for? It’s slacking on its human rights obligations to refugees.
Mexico is hoping we won’t look at their own byzantine system, which already repels people across their northern border.
Here’s where Donald Trump needs to talk turkey to Mexico. Even if we wanted to keep up the public welfare to foreigners, we would have the right to insist that it go to environments where effort is being made to keep it sane. And here is the problem. The corruption in Mexico is terrible.