Mexico’s president calls deadly human smuggling 'unfortunate,' shifts blame to US

ICIJ

Center

High Factuality

Mexico’s president calls deadly human smuggling 'unfortunate,' shifts blame to US

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has responded to an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners that documented nearly 19,000 migrants’ journeys to the U.S. border under dangerous conditions. López Obrador, speaking in Spanish, described the smuggling of migrants through Mexico in cargo trucks as “very unfortunate,” but avoided questions about whether his government should bear …