Mexico pledges $30 billion in development aid in part to deter migration
by Patrick J. McDonnell and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Dec 11, 2018
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's new government - under pressure from the Trump administration to curb illegal immigration to the U.S. - will pump more than $30 billion into development for southern Mexico, an investment plan meant in part to deter illicit migration from Central America, the country's top diplomat said Monday.
Speaking at a global migration conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard pledged that Mexico would embark on a five-year investment scheme for job-creating projects in impoverished southern Mexico that would also
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