Mexican immigration agents linked to corruption
January 18, 2022
A corrupt behavior has been found among 105 of Mexico’s immigration agencies. The National Immigration Institute did not explain the corruption in detail but said it was combatting extortion, meaning border agents demanded bribes to allow people to enter the country. On January 6th when a group of Venezuelan migrants arrived at the Mexico City airport, the migrants lined up at immigration checkpoints with $100 bills tucked into their passports. The Venezuelan migrants were sent back to their country because they did not have the proper papers to enter Mexico and claimed the bills in the passport were there mistakenly.
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