Mexico's president says soldiers at US-Mexican border are not there to stop migrants
Members of Mexico's National Guard detain Cuban migrants after they were trying to cross illegally the border between the U.S. and Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 21, 2019
"No such order has been issued, and we are going to review that case so that it doesn't happen again because that's not our job," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a press conference. Asked whether the National Guardsmen and army troops recently deployed to Mexico's northern border were detaining migrants to prevent them from crossing, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval replied: "Yes."
"Those are not the instructions they have. They are not there to do that job. That is the work of the migration authorities, not the army," he said.However, he added: "We have to avoid a confrontation with the government of the United States."
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