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H. R. "Randy" Williamson
H. R. "Randy" Williamson, former Field Operations Supervisor at United States Border Patrol (1970-1990)
Answered 58w ago · Author has 195 answers and 142.2k answer views

That is a difficult question to answer simply. Technically speaking, they do on the southern border. The State of Chiapas has the “Policia Estatal Fronteriza” (State Border Police) between Mexico and Guatemala. See the link below. http://fusion.kinja.com/as-mexic...

They are poorly paid and as they see it their job is to stop narcotics shipments from crossing the border. They are usually amenable to accepting a small bribe “la mordida” to allow people to pass without papers. Illegal Central Americans are preyed upon all of the way across Mexico to the U. S. border. There is no real attempt to stop them as it is known they don’t want to stay in Mexico but are simply transiting the country on the way to the U.S.

The Northern border is patrolled by the Mexican Army but Mexican Customs mans the Ports of Entry on the border. At one time the Army manned the Pors of entry but corruption was so prevalent, it was estimated that less than 50% of the duty collected at the ports of entry was being sent to Mexico, D.F. At this time Customs replaced the Army at the Ports. Since I worked for the U.S. State Department in Mexico in 2000, the Cartels have become much more powerful and control many units of the Army and police. With Army units actually providing escorts to drug convoys crossing into the U.S. You have to understand that much of Mexico is under Cartel control and the people live in terror.

See the Dept of State travel warning, link below.

https://travel.state.gov/content...

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Vicente Negrete
Vicente Negrete, studied at Ibero-American University
Answered 168w ago · Upvoted by Daune Robinson, former Retired at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (1987-2008) · Author has 981 answers and 640.2k answer views
No.

In Mexico we have a national police (Polica Federal)

A state Police (Policia Estatal)


And a county police (Policia Municipal)
Or city police in the case of Mexico City.

Then we have the Army (Ejercito) which is doing police work in narco territories


And Navy (Marina) which are the elite assault forces that perform the really dangerous stuff. This ones are bad asses, narcos allways run when they arrive!


We also have a Policia Judicial or Ministerial, Im not sure how those ones work but they handle the investigation end.

We do not have neither Border Patrol nor Coast Guard since those tasks are done by the Policia Federal and the Marina.
David Martinez
David Martinez, Us/Mexico dual citizen/history nut. Yep, that Mexican Thing.
Answered 168w ago · Author has 2.1k answers and 2.5m answer views
No. In Mexico immigration is a public service, not a law enforcement organization.

This site - Instituto Nacional de Migración - has an explanation and background, in English, of the job of the Mexican Migratory institute and its legal framework (go tot he home page for all info on visas, stay requirements and enforcement - top corner has an English button).

At border checkpoints there are guards and clerks who are trained in immigration law, but there is no "border patrol", nor a need for one.

In highly populated or considered dangerous places, where people with guns are needed, the army or local police takes over the patrolling part of the job. If they grabbed someone "sneaking", he or she would probably just be taken to the checkpoint for proper processing (and arrest if it turns out to be a wanted criminal) but not arrested on the spot. Mexico for the most part welcomes immigrants, has no quotas and the migratory procedures are not onerous.

Having said that, plain-clothes inspectors do exist. They operate mostly in Southern Mexico, and focus on obtaining and deporting, on immigration grounds, dangerous criminals, so they are more like the FBI than a border patrol per se, they just use the migratory law to do their job preemptively (keep foreign criminals off Mexico) by working with local police and hitting the pavement at immigration hotspots. They don't round up immigrants or conduct raids though, they have specific profiles of specific people in mind.
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Dulce De Reyes
Dulce De Reyes, former Officer at Culture Difusion Department at National Autonomous University Of Mexico (2000-2010)
Answered 12w ago · Author has 216 answers and 156.9k answer views

No, we want you to come here if that's what you really want to. Any of you.

“Mi casa es su casa” =)

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Not exactly. But there are federal agents (not policemen), that take care about immigration. Here is the website if you need more information Instituto Nacional de Migración.
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Danny Tippit
Danny Tippit, Owner (2016-present)

They have the military patrol their border. We ran into them often when patrolling our own border. Even stopped and had discussions. Across the border fence.

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