Mexico fires 7 top officials at immigration agency where employees accused of kidnapping

Source: Washington Post

MEXICO CITY — Seven top officials were fired Thursday from Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, part of a wider cleanup effort at the embattled department amid rampant migrant kidnappings and accusations that some agents have been involved.

The officials directed operations in seven states most traveled by Central American migrants trying to reach the United States and where some of the worst atrocities against migrants have occurred, the Interior Department announced in a statement.

They include the director in the northern state of Tamaulipas, where a group of Central American migrants recently accused immigration agents of pulling them off buses and handing them over to criminal gangs. Six agents from the immigration institute were arrested after migrants identified them in photographs.

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Mexico is a great place if you can overlook the government corruption. Hell! I lived there for 25 years and would go back in a second if I could. It will always be my first home.