US, Mexico widen asylum crackdown to push back all migrants | World News, The Indian Express

US, Mexico widen asylum crackdown to push back all migrants | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Mexico, Nuevo Laredo |Updated: August 29, 2019 12:54:25 pm

US, Mexico widen asylum crackdown to push back all migrants

The results serve the goals of both governments the US and Mexico, which have targeted unauthorized migration at the behest of President Donald Trump, who threatened Mexico with potentially crippling tariffs earlier this year to force action.

US border agents give each returned migrant a date for an immigration court hearing at tents set up near the border. But the Mexican government has bused hundreds of migrants to cities around 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) away, ostensibly for their safety. And there’s no promise that Mexico will bring migrants back. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico has evolved into a sweeping rejection of all forms of migrants, with both countries quietly working to keep people out of the US despite threats to the migrants’ safety.