Please help. Causative/causative passive question

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Hi all. I'm a bit confused on these grammar points with some sentence. If someone could check my translations I would appreciate it.

Hiroshi is made to pick up michiko from the station.

ひろしさんは美智子さんに駅に迎えにいかされます

Michiko makes Hiroshi pick her up from the station.

美智子さんはひろしさんに駅に迎えにいかさせます

Thanks in advance.
 
に indicates the causer, so the first Japanese sentence only shows that Michiko is the person who made Hiroshi pick someone up from the station. Thus, the one in the station can be someone else than Michiko. Or rather, it seems to me that it's not Michiko since other expressions are more commonly used if she was in the station, for example, ひろしさんは美智子さんに駅に迎えに来るよう(にと)言われました.

The same goes with the second example.
(Note that 行く is a godan verb, so the causative passive form is 行かせる/行かせます, not 行かせる/行かせます.)
 
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