Mexico has been seen for years as the country Central Americans must travel through to reach the United States.

But Mexico has been quietly taking steps to become the final destination for those migrants. Christopher Gascon, the top official working in Mexico as part of the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, said Mexico has been funding projects that will help the country take in thousands of people from Central America, and said the U.N. is looking to help.

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