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MEXICO CITY-The United Nations and other organizations are applauding changes to Mexico’s immigration law that would prohibit holding migrant children in immigration detention centers.

International and domestic groups have pressured Mexico for years to stop holding children in detention centers with their parents.

Families, especially from Central America, were crossing Mexico to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border during the first half of 2019.The United States government made it increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to pursue their cases at the border and pressured Mexico to take a more aggressive approach to slowing the flow of migrants north.

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