Over two hours on June 1, a Honduran teenager named Tania pleaded with a U.S. of...
- Over two hours on June 1, a Honduran teenager named Tania pleaded with a U.S. official not to be returned to Mexico.
Tania’s is not an unusual case. Once asylum seekers are ordered to wait in Mexico, their chances of getting that decision reversed on safety grounds - allowing them to wait out their proceedings in the United States - are exceedingly small, a Reuters analysis of U.S. immigration court data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review shows.
Trump, who ran for office on a platform of cracking down on illegal immigration, has grown increasingly frustrated by the ballooning numbers of mostly Central American families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and asking for asylum in the United States. The administration devised the policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico to reduce the number of migrants living in the United States while their cases chug through a backlogged court system.
Central American migrants, who are waiting for their court hearing for asylum seekers that returned to Mexico to await their legal proceedings under a new policy established by the U.S. government, are seen at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis GonzalezAsylum seekers like Tania - who spoke on condition that only her first name be used because she feared for her safety in Mexico – can at any time tell U.S.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the division of DHS that oversees the officers that conduct these interviews, declined to say how many migrants plead fear of returning to Mexico and how many are allowed into the United States, citing the litigation.
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