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MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities fired seven regional directors of the country's immigration agency Thursday following allegations that its officers in northern Mexico had delivered Central American migrants to kidnapping gangs.
Salvador Beltran del Rio, who heads the National Migration Institute, or INM, described the firings as part of a wider effort to weed out corruption in the agency, which enforces Mexico's immigration laws. Mexican officials have vowed to fight armed groups that kidnap migrants to extort money or recruit them for drug trafficking.
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Mexico fires 7 officials after migrants' kidnappings
Wouldn't it make sense to hire these gangs to remove the illegals from the US?
Salvador Beltran del Rio, who heads the National Migration Institute, or INM, described the firings as part of a wider effort to weed out corruption in the agency, which enforces Mexico's immigration laws. Mexican officials have vowed to fight armed groups that kidnap migrants to extort money or recruit them for drug trafficking.
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Mexico fires 7 officials after migrants' kidnappings
By some estimates, 400,000 migrants cross through Mexico each year on a risky northward trek that has grown more perilous as armed drug gangs increasingly target migrants, often in order to demand money from relatives in Central America or the United States.
Wouldn't it make sense to hire these gangs to remove the illegals from the US?