migration crisis

The program was launched in January and was one of many policies aimed at slowing rising numbers of immigrants arriving at the border

U.S. President Donald Trump also threatened to apply 25% tariffs on car imports from Mexico

"Mexico understands that we’re going to close the border, or I’m going to tariff the cars,” Trump told reporters

A transfer of U.S. border agents to immigration duties slowed the flow of commercial traffic at several border crossings

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to close the U.S. Mexico border

Mexico’s Interior Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero warned that a new migrant caravan was forming in Honduras

Around 1,000 migrants from Africa, Haiti, and Asia handed themselves over to Mexico's Migration Institute (INM)

More than 2,000 Central American migrants entered southern Mexico on Thursday to get to the U.S.

Mexico hopes to discourage a mass exodus from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

The incident did not appear to be related to organized crime, according to a Tijuana prosecutor