Immigration

Mexico southern border control so far just talk

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Published July 16, 2014 4:05am ET
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Mexico southern border control so far just talk
In this Friday, July 11, 2014 photo, a tricycle rides on the bridge that connects Tecun Uman, Guatemala, with Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. At the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, raft operators ferry constant streams of Guatemalans and other Central Americans across the broad Suchiate River in improvised rafts made of truck inner tubes lashed to wooden boards, in plain view of Mexican police on the shore and immigration agents posted on a bridge over the river that links the two countries. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) | Eduardo Verdugo

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico is promising to stem the flow of Central American migrants to the United States by tightening control at its notoriously porous Guatemalan border.

But messages from the country’s top two leaders in little more than a week have provided few details on how. And the scene on the ground is business as usual.

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