As of Friday, the U.S. had sent 6,004 asylum seekers back to Mexico under a program that seeks to deter asylum seekers who fear persecution at home.
at border crossings that have left thousands of migrants waiting in Mexican border shelters for the chance to enter the U.S. to apply for asylum.
A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, whose agents decide which migrants are placed in the program, referred questions to Homeland Security. A Homeland Security spokeswoman declined to comment. A thousand migrants packed overcrowded Juarez shelters last week, said Martha Esquivel de Guerrero, director of Buen Pastor church shelter. Her 10-bed shelter was housing 125 migrants, 35 of them asylum seekers sent back by U.S. immigration officials to Mexico. Most had no choice but to sleep on the floor or between pews. The city’s largest shelter, the 250-bed Casa del Migrante, housed 480 migrants, about 60% of them returnees.
Hernandez says American officials should let pregnant women remain in the U.S. until their asylum cases are decided.Raquela Pedro Juan, 21, of Guatemala, who gave birth to daughter Ana Sofia Pedro Juan on May 9, 2019, attempts to cross the border bridge to El Paso. At right is Enma Hernandez, 26, who is eight months pregnant.
It wasn’t initially clear what happened to Hernandez and the other women who did not appear. Immigration Judge Nathan Herbert asked Rivas and an attorney representing the government. Neither of them said they knew. The judge asked the government lawyer to find out, but he said after the hearing that he still didn’t know.
“The migrants involved were interviewed, as is routine for all [Remain in Mexico] participants, to determine if they continued to meet the requirements” for the program, the official said. “Six of the individuals are scheduled to return to Mexico under the program and one is being processed through other appropriate immigration channels.”
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