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Mexico diverted money from development to contain migration

by Associated Press
| September 9, 2020 12:03 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under pressure from the United States to reduce migration, the Mexican government diverted money from a fund intended to spur regional development to instead renovate immigration detention centers and bus migrants away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

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