Mexico detains suspects in death of migration agent near U.S. border
Mexican migration agency INM said in a separate statement that a third suspect, a Colombian national, was also detained.
The slain agent was attacked at a checkpoint just south of Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, when he asked an unspecified number of foreign nationals for their identification documents, according to INM.
The death of the migration official comes as would-be migrants await an expected tightening on entry to the United States once Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
Hundreds of U.S.-bound migrants waited in long lines outside an immigration office in southern Mexico on Monday, hoping to secure safe passage north and enter the U.S. legally before Trump returns to power.