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Several foreign nationals must now have documents to enter Mexico, following a spike in migration to the United States. Mexico got catcalls from Brazil on Friday after announcing it will again require visas for Brazilians, many of whom have been using Mexico to enter the United States without documents. Tens of thousands of Brazilians have been apprehended while trying to enter the United States illegally since Brazil and Mexico agreed to waive visa requirements for each others' citizens in February 2004. The Mexican government announced the measures late Thursday. On Friday, it issued a statement denying local press reports that the measure was aimed at preventing the entry of "Muslims or 'presumed terrorists.'" "The Mexican government regrets such negative and ill-intended misinformation,
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which has caused so much indignation in Mexico and abroad," the Foreign Relations Secretariat said in a statement. Mexico will also begin requiring visa for travelers from Ecuador and South Africa, whose citizens also frequently travel through Mexico to reach the United States. |