Mexico will continue pursuing measures to stop migrants from reaching its northern border with the United States, its top diplomat said Friday, days after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election vowing a new crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump has pledged to reduce immigration. But by narrowing the already limited legal pathways into the U.S., migrants will just recalibrate their plans and resort in greater numbers to hiring smugglers, experts say. In many cases that will mean turning to organized crime groups that increasingly profit from migrant smuggling.

Donald Trump's win in the United States presidential election instantly changed calculations for millions of migrants or potential migrants across the globe.