Why The U.S. Will Start Sending Migrants Back to Mexico
- 5 years ago
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will soon send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their U.S. asylum requests are processed, a major change in immigration policy, the Trump administration announced on Thursday. Immigrant advocates and human rights experts quickly denounced the policy change as illegal and violating the rights of refugees.