File photo: A man from Honduras who does not want to be identified, recovers from a bullet wound in his leg at the Jesus Buen Pastor shelter in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The number of people applying for asylum in Mexico has soared by more than 150 percent since Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, according to Mexican data, as more Central American migrants seek to stay rather than take their chances in the United States.
Between November 2016 and March, Mexico's refugee agency, COMAR, received 5,421 asylum applications, up from 2,148 over the same period in 2015 and 2016.
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