The number of asylum applications received by Mexico has spiked by 150% in the months after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, while detentions at the southwestern U.S.-Mexico border fell slightly during the same period. Between November and March, Mexico’s refugee agency COMAR received 5,421 applications for asylum in total, 150% more than it did in…

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