Patrick J. McDonnell

MEXICO CITY  —  Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said immigrants shouldn’t be viewed as “criminals,” but declared that Mexico has a plan for an influx of returnees should President-elect Donald Trump proceed with threatened mass deportations of immigrants, many of them Mexican nationals. “We don’t agree that migrants be treated as criminals,” Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday

MEXICO CITY —  Mexican authorities vowed to investigate a deadly incident in which its soldiers opened fire on a truck carrying U.S.-bound migrants near the country’s southern border with Guatemala, killing six and injuring at least 10 others. “It’s a lamentable act that has to be investigated and punished,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday

MEXICO CITY —  It stands as one of Mexico’s most notorious crimes: The slayings of at least 265 U.S.-bound migrants in two separate massacres more than a decade ago. The victims — mostly Central Americans — were kidnapped from buses headed to Mexican cities abutting Texas. Their bodies were discovered in 2010 and 2011 about 100

CUILCO, Guatemala —  In their native village in southern Mexico, people once lived a tranquil existence. The 30 or so families planted coffee, corn and beans, while some kept chickens and a few cows. “We were never afraid of anything,” said Melina Martínez, 28. “We could come home at night, at 1 o’clock in the morning.