Today, 25 January, the first group of asylum-seekers will be returned to the Mexican border town of Tijuana.
A month ago, the Secretary of homeland security (DHS) Kirsten Nielsen stated that the migrants who arrived in the United States in search of asylum will be sent back to Mexico during the pendency of their cases. The exact date of the first expulsion Reuters reported the press Secretary of the President of Mexico, andrés Manuel lópez Obrador.
«We have notified the Mexican government about our proposed actions. In response, Mexico adopted an independent decision about what they undertake to adopt the necessary measures on its side of the border,» said Nielsen in December.
This decision will involve crossing the San Ysidro district of San Diego (CA). Eventually this policy spread along the entire border, which stretches for 2 thousand miles (3200 km), said a source in the Washington Post, DHS.
According to the fact sheet distributed by DHS, these new measures will apply to «certain aliens seeking to enter the United States illegally or without documents, including those seeking asylum».
In an accompanying statement, the Minister of national security Kirsten Nielsen called the new measure «unprecedented» and intended to solve the «continuing humanitarian crisis and a security crisis on our southern border.»
«For too long our immigration system is exploited by smugglers, human traffickers and those who do not have the legal right to remain in the United States,» said Nielsen.
The border policy of the administration of trump and the Department of homeland security has been criticized in a few months after the White house made some tough proposals in respect of immigration. For example, the separation of migrant children from their families on the border — has caused a huge public reaction.
National security called the new plan one of the most significant changes in immigration policy in decades.
