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US to Send Migrants Back to Mexico While Cases Pending

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
12/20/18
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Honduran migrants take part in a caravan towards the United States in Chiquimula, Guatemala on October 17, 2018

Honduran migrants taking part in a caravan towards the United States in October. Photo: Orlando Estrada, AFP

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The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will send migrants who cross the southern border back to Mexico while their cases are being heard so they cannot “disappear” on U.S. soil.

“Aliens trying to game the system to get into our country illegally will no longer be able to disappear into the United States, where many skip their court dates,” announced Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

“Instead, they will wait for an immigration court decision while they are in Mexico. ‘Catch and release’ will be replaced with ‘catch and return,'” Nielsen said in a statement.

The move came amid President Donald Trump‘s frustration that efforts to stem a tide of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America for the United States have not worked.


Why This Matters

Over the past year, many have made their way across the border and then requested asylum, forcing the U.S. to review their cases. The cases can take months or years to weigh and, in the meantime, the migrants are released.

Trump recently ordered that the asylum claims of migrants from Central America — mainly Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — be automatically denied. But in recent weeks, courts have accepted lawsuits challenging the legality of that order and have blocked officials from implementing it.


What’s Next

Nielsen said Thursday’s decision will reduce illegal migration “by removing one of the key incentives that encourage people from taking the dangerous journey to the United States in the first place.”

“This will also allow us to focus more attention on those who are actually fleeing persecution.”

#BorderPatrol agents in the #RGV Rio Grande Valley arrested over 80 illegal aliens in several alien smuggling attempts over the weekend. @CBP #SouthwestBorder #BorderSecurity #AlwaysVigilant #HonorFirst #USBPhttps://t.co/Pr6aRax85b pic.twitter.com/X1K6q7qVxV

— CBP RGV (@CBPRGV) December 19, 2018

Nielsen said the Mexican government, which will now be forced to deal with the migrants, has been informed of the U.S. decision.

“In response, Mexico has made an independent determination that they will commit to implementing essential measures on their side of the border,” she said.

“We expect affected migrants will receive humanitarian visas to stay on Mexican soil, the ability to apply for work, and other protections while they await a U.S. legal determination.”


More on the Subject

Wayne A. Cornelius, Director Emeritus of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program at UC San Diego, says that “Trump’s latest effort to divert attention from his and his team’s legal problems involves a game of chicken with Democrats in Congress over funding for his southwestern border wall.” The wall, however, is unlikely to stop migrants, but would only enrich people smugglers, increase chances that migrants settle permanently, and divert them from remote areas into legal ports.

Border Control Hasn’t Kept Determined Migrants Out and Neither Will Trump’s Wall

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