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U.S. ramps up Mexico asylum returns, Trump confirms 'safe third country' plan
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS JUNE 14, 2019 / 10:01 AM / UPDATED 11 HOURS AGO
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-mexico/u-s-ramps-up-mexico-asylum-returns-trump-confirms-safe-third-country-plan-idUSKCN1TF1TO
U.S. ramps up Mexico asylum returns, Trump confirms 'safe third country' plan
Frank Jack Daniel, Julio-Cesar Chavez
4 MIN READ
MEXICO CITY/EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The United States has doubled the number of asylum seekers it sends back each day to Mexico from El Paso, Texas, a Mexican immigration official said on Friday, in the first sign of action following a deal struck to avert U.S. tariffs last week.
Luis Carlos Cano, a spokesman for Mexico’s national immigration agency in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, said starting Thursday some 200 asylum seekers per day were being sent back, up from 100 previously.
Under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexico agreed on June 7 to expand the program, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or ‘Remain in Mexico,’ which forces mostly Central American asylum seekers arriving at the U.S. southern border to await the outcome of their U.S. asylum claims in Mexico.
Remain in Mexico currently operates in Tijuana, Mexicali and Ciudad Juarez. Close to 12,000 people have been returned to Mexico since it began in January.
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Frank Jack Daniel, Julio-Cesar Chavez
4 MIN READ
MEXICO CITY/EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The United States has doubled the number of asylum seekers it sends back each day to Mexico from El Paso, Texas, a Mexican immigration official said on Friday, in the first sign of action following a deal struck to avert U.S. tariffs last week.
Luis Carlos Cano, a spokesman for Mexico’s national immigration agency in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, said starting Thursday some 200 asylum seekers per day were being sent back, up from 100 previously.
Under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexico agreed on June 7 to expand the program, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or ‘Remain in Mexico,’ which forces mostly Central American asylum seekers arriving at the U.S. southern border to await the outcome of their U.S. asylum claims in Mexico.
Remain in Mexico currently operates in Tijuana, Mexicali and Ciudad Juarez. Close to 12,000 people have been returned to Mexico since it began in January.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-mexico/u-s-ramps-up-mexico-asylum-returns-trump-confirms-safe-third-country-plan-idUSKCN1TF1TO
