Mexican City: Gang Violence and Immigrant Families

mexican city: He earns 8 a day working 12 hours slicing plastic bottles to put into a compactor, enough to pay the electricity and water and buy some food, according to Metro News. But the U.N. refugee agency picks up the rent and that of a growing number of immigrant families in this Mexican city of 32,000 people near the Guatemalan border. Their neighbours on both sides are Hondurans like them. Mejia is among more than 8,000 immigrants expected to seek asylum this year from Mexico, the majority fleeing gang violence in Honduras and El Salvador and to a lesser extent Guatemala. The decision to settle in Mexico and not continue to the United States is tied to increased recognition of the risks of crossing Mexico and more recently the hostile rhetoric of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the immigrants and their advocates say. The exodus is turning southern Mexico towns like Tenosique as well as Palenque and Tapachula in neighbouring Chiapas state into informal refugee camps. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.