According to the National Migration Institute:


â?¢ The number of undocumented immigrants detained in Mexico has risen nearly every year for the past decade, increasing 40 percent from 2000 to 2004. In 1997, authorities caught 86,973 undocumented foreigners. By 2004, the number was 215,695. Of those, 211,218 were deported.


â?¢ Officials are predicting a record 215,000 deportations this year. From January to the end of May, authorities expelled 107,349 people, an increase of 12.5 percent over 2004.


â?¢ The number of undocumented foreigners turned away at airports and border crossing points has grown even faster: from 6,822 in 2002 to 10,089 in 2004.


â?¢ Since 2003, the Mexican government has remodeled 45 detention centers and built two more in Tijuana and Los Cabos to handle the influx of migrants. Three more are under construction in Tapachula, along the Guatemalan border; in Acayucan, along a major highway in the state of Veracruz; and in Janos, 30 miles south of the New Mexico border in Chihuahua state.


â?¢ Civic groups also have opened a new shelter for unaccompanied child migrants, whose numbers rose from 697 in 2003 to 3,722 in 2004. Experts say tougher U.S. border security has made it riskier for migrants in the United States to return for their children.
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Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . The kamikazes of poverty Mexico's southern border with Guatemala is supposed to be a new frontier in the war against terror. But it is economic migration that causes the problems AT THE Jesús el Buen Pastor refuge in the centre of Tapachula, a city on Mexico's border with Guatemala, the door is opened by Héctor, a Honduran in a wheelchair. He lost both his legs trying to jump a freight train bound for central Mexico, the first stage of what was meant to be the long journey north to the beckoning opportunities of Rating: 5