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Calista241

(5,586 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:39 PM Jan 2019

Exclusive: U.S. to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico on Friday - official

Source: Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, a spokesman for Mexico’s president said on Thursday.

In a major policy change, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Dec. 20 it would send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their U.S. asylum requests are processed.

The spokesman for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s office did not specify the nationalities of those to be returned to Mexico, although the policy was aimed at helping cope with rising numbers of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States.

The two countries have held two meetings to work out details of the plan to return migrants seeking U.S. asylum across the shared border. Mexico has said it will not accept anybody facing a credible threat in Mexican territory.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-to-begin-returning-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-on-friday-official-idUSKCN1PI2VV

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Exclusive: U.S. to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico on Friday - official (Original Post) Calista241 Jan 2019 OP
With what money? Corgigal Jan 2019 #1
Like Tijuana has the capacity or facilities to aid them... Heartstrings Jan 2019 #2
Isn't that illegal if they have applied? 2naSalit Jan 2019 #3
When is that maggot Stephen Miller going to be brought before Congress turbinetree Jan 2019 #4
You must mean President Miller. BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #7
Its hard to keep track of, they all look the same........................ turbinetree Jan 2019 #8
He's the one with the spray on dark brown hair, BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #9
Wado------------Thank you turbinetree Jan 2019 #10
God damn this fucking administration. Initech Jan 2019 #5
It seems like everyone is helpless to do anything about this cruelty. riversedge Jan 2019 #6
Hmmm, aren't the ICE guys on furlough? FakeNoose Jan 2019 #11
I don't think this is legal but, of course, that doesn't matter anymore. PSPS Jan 2019 #12
without their children scarytomcat Jan 2019 #13

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
1. With what money?
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:43 PM
Jan 2019

Pay the FBI, they are handling the mass causality event at the SunBank in Florida. Banks are always worked by the FBI.

Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
2. Like Tijuana has the capacity or facilities to aid them...
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:45 PM
Jan 2019

Disgraceful of our country to ship them off and abandon them....

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
13. without their children
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 07:40 PM
Jan 2019

since they didn't keep track of who goes with who
then when they get older they can deport them too DACA

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