Mexico's Top Migration Official Quits After Senate Hearing

Mexico's commissioner of National Migration Institute has resigned after being summoned by the Senate in the wake of the massacre of 72 migrants by suspected drug traffickers that shocked a northern Mexican state bordering Texas, U.S. Senators summoned Cecilia, who is also the former president of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean, to explain measures her office had taken to protect migrants moving through Mexico. Cutting across party lines, the senators condemned the massacre and acknowledged that Mexico could not "demand respect for its nationals in the United States" when it "does not assure the dignified treatment" of migrants from other countries on its own territory...more