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The Mexican women aiding migrants on their perilous journey to the US

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Summary
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67% Informative

A group of women in the eastern state of Veracruz , known as Las Patronas , bag up rice, beans, tortillas, bread, bread and tins of tuna and bottles of water.

This year , Mexico has stopped around three times as many migrants who have crossed into its territory from Central America as it did a year ago .

Mexico has just chosen its first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum , who will take office in October .

Thousands of detained migrants have been dropped in towns on the border with Guatemala , some 2,000 kilometres from the US border.

Mexico only sent back around 8,500 people in the first three months of this year .

Salvadoran migrant, Guadalupe, likens the tactic to a giant game of snakes and ladders.

VR Score

68

Informative language

63

Neutral language

26

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

44

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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