Quote:MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will return the first group of migrants seeking U.S. asylum to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, a Mexican government spokesman said on Thursday.

In a major policy change, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Dec. 20 it would send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their asylum requests are processed.

The spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not specify the nationalities of those to be returned to Mexico, although the policy was aimed at helping cope with rising numbers of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States.

The two countries have held two meetings to work out details of the plan to return migrants seeking U.S. asylum across the shared border. Mexico has said it will not accept anybody facing a credible threat in Mexican territory.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond for comment on when the program would begin, although a department official said the policy would not apply to certain vulnerable populations and unaccompanied minors.

Serious doubts exist over whether Mexico can keep Central American asylum seekers who are fleeing poverty and crime safe, especially in border towns that are often more violent than the cities they left.

It is unclear how Mexico plans to house what could be thousands of asylum seekers for the months - or years - it takes U.S. immigration cases to be heard. A backlog of more than 800,000 cases is pending in immigration courts.

The program, dubbed Migrant Protection Protocols by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is one of a series of measures taken by the Trump administration aimed at making it harder for Central Americans to enter the United States under asylum laws.

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Good, they need to go home.


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Catch and return

Pass a law making illegal entry into the United States a crime punishable by death, to be carried out immediately upon capture without proper documentation. Then we can forget this whole wall thing.

I guarantee that we are giving Mexico a bunch of money to defray their costs in this arrangement.

(01-25-2019 12:23 AM)banker Wrote:  Pass a law making illegal entry into the United States a crime punishable by death, to be carried out immediately upon capture without proper documentation. Then we can forget this whole wall thing.

I guarantee that we are giving Mexico a bunch of money to defray their costs in this arrangement.

Yup. And you know it’s damn well likely more than a 5.7bb paltry sum.

Something REAL has to be done here. We let a city the size of Charlotte, or Indy or Ft worth just stroll on in, year after year after year.

It’s national and cultural suicide, but alas, I guess that’s the leftist endgame.