translated from Spanish: New migrant capture record, after Trump threat

Within a week of June, the number of undocumented migrants detained this month by Mexico is already a record. 
The National Institute of Migration (INM) informed Political Animal that, at the end of the 24th of this month, arrested 23,917 people who entered the country irregularly, mainly Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans. 
To find a higher figure, you have to go back 13 years, until February 2006, when Mexico arrested 24,892 undocumented migrants with Vicente Fox as president. 
In fact, the data of migrant catches of this June 2019 is the third highest in the history of Mexico, since the official registration began in 2002, as recorded in the statistics portal of the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of The Government (Segob).
This new all-time record comes just weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 5% of tariffs if Lopez Obrador’s administration did not curb the undocumented migration that seeks to cross into his country.  
The most recent data of this month of June represents an increase of 239 catches compared to May (1%), the month that until a few days ago had the record of migrant catches so far from the new government of López Obrador. 
This figure of 23,917 June arrests also reflects an increase of up to 150% compared to June last year, when Mexico then arrested 9,577 migrants. 
Or in other figures: Mexico went from arresting 308 migrants a day in June last year to 771 a day this month. 
And if the comparison is made with June 2017, when 7,471 stoppages were reported, growth in 2019 is even larger: catches increased to 220%. 
In fact, in just seven months of new government (December 2018-June 2019) Mexico already captured 105,834 undocumented migrants, surpassing the figures for all 2017 (93 thousand 846), and remaining close to the detainments of all 2018 (138 thousand).
For migrant children, 2019 statistics also suggest a notable increase: as of April they are 15,008, 53% more than in 2018.
Of these juvenile migrants detained, 8 thousand 863 are 11 years of age or younger; that is, almost 6 out of 10 (58%); and a thousand 299 traveled alone to the United States, without the company of any adult (14%).
On the other hand, deportations of undocumented migrants in Mexico also experienced high growth in June 2019: they are 17 thousand 263, 122% more than in June 2018. 
If you compare the numbers of expulsions over these first seven months of López Obrador’s government, the increase is also more than noticeable: of 6 thousand 373 deportations in December 2018, passed at 17 thousand 263 June, a shot of 170%.
There may be some excesses: AMLO
In addition to Trump’s threat to impose tariffs, the new record for deportations of migrants in Mexico comes after Mexico and the United States signed an agreement in Washington on June 7, in which, among other points , the Mexican executive pledged to send 6,000 elements of the National Guard to detain migrants on the southern border with Guatemala. 
Although the plan was not left alone in sending troops to 11 municipalities on the southern border.
Just last Monday, The Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, revealed during the usual morning conference of President López Obrador that Mexico also deployed another 15 thousand soldiers and police on the northern border, to meet the commitment to the U.S. government to curb migration within 45 days. 
The detension of migrants, the head of the Mexican Army, said, can be made even at the edge of the binational border boundary, as could be seen in an image captured by a photographer of the AFP agency. It shows two women and a girl who were arrested by heavily armed members of the National Guard, while attempting to cross the Rio Bravo; the tributary that separates Ciudad Juarez, from the Mexican side, from El Paso, in Texas, United States. 
An image that reflects the change in the new government’s migration policy, which went from having as its central focus respect for human rights and the non-criminalization of migration, to being a policy of containment with a police focus, as indicated by the growth of arrests and deportations of statistics, recent scenes of mass raids in Pijijiapan, Chiapas, the catheters in hotels on the southern border, and the Mexican government’s order to bus owners not to transport migrants. 
For his part, President López Obrador has maintained his position that his government’s immigration policy is based on respect for human rights, and on providing opportunities to migrants through the issuance of temporary stay and work visas in the country You’re.
“We are fulfilling a commitment we made to identify on the southern border, to make a record of all the (migrants) entering our country, that is a legal matter, and we are carrying it out. And at the same time, we are betting on giving options to migrants in their places of origin and in Mexico. And that’s what we’re working on, and taking care that human rights (of migrants) are not violated, that’s the work that’s being done,” the president said Tuesday at a press conference. 
As to why the elements of the National Guard used force to stop the two women and a minor when they were already crossing the United States on the Rio Bravo, the Mexican representative admitted that “there may be these excesses”. 
“But everyone’s instruction is to respect the human rights of migrants, and that’s going to continue like this,” he insisted. 
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Original source in Spanish