Mexicans who live in the U.S. have long complained about being taken advantage of by Mexican officials when they go back to visit Mexico.
A recent article in Mexico’s Excelsior quotes such U.S.-resident Mexicans who were passing through Hermosillo in the state of Sonora.
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From Excelsior (my translation): “Fellow Mexicans who come from the US to visit relatives in their native city complain upon returning to their homeland that they receive better treatment from U.S. migration agents than from Mexican authorities, who rob them, offend them, and blackmail them under any pretext.”
“In the Hermosillo bus station, Excelsior was able to collect the testimony of various returning fellow Mexicans who complain that U.S. agents treat them better than Mexican authorities.”
Francisca was a passenger traveling from Utah to the state of Nayarit in Mexico. “Francisca brought a Nintendo Switch for her grandson which can freely enter the country tax free, but the soldier who inspected her suitcase demanded 1800 pesos. She negotiated and paid 75 dollars to avoid problems…”
The 1800 pesos would have been equivalent to about 95 dollars, so she negotiated him down about 20 US dollars. But it was still a robbery.
Francisca reported that all the bus passengers endured similar treatment –” from some they took one or two thousand pesos. In this bus with at least 40 passengers, the fellow Mexican from whom was taken the least amount of money had 500 pesos taken…”
“The abuses of Mexican authorities to the returning fellow Mexicans are not only committed by customs soldiers, but also municipal police in each city they travel through and even from migratory authorities.”
The article ends thusly: “Migrants lament that Mexican officials are worse than those of the United States.”