Move them north

By Ángeles Mariscal

We believe that, in the evolutionary scale, people are at the highest level of the evolutionary scale compared to other species. Comparing the human being/human being to a huge group of sheep looking for a way out of the corral in a steppe seems rude to us; to think that governments manipulate people like herds of cattle sounds even worse. But that is the image that comes to my mind when I think of the more than 15,000 migrants that in only three days the Mexican government moved from the southern border to the northern border, to open space and receive the new deportees that the U.S. government will begin to send.

It is not that the migrants were forced to go north against their will, since they were trapped in the process of migratory containment that, for several decades, the governments of the United States and Mexico have agreed to move the flow according to the political and economic ups and downs of both nations.