Since January, the U.S. government has ordered 13,000 migrants under 18, includi...
TIJUANA, Mexico - Since January, the U.S. government has ordered 13,000 migrants under 18, including more than 400 infants, to wait with their families in Mexico for U.S. immigration court hearings, a Reuters analysis of government data found.
Trump administration officials have said they are doing everything possible to discourage migrant families from making dangerous journeys to the United States, often in the hands of human smugglers, which they say needlessly put children at risk.About one third of the nearly 40,000 migrants in the MPP program as of September 1 were children under 18, according to the latest data available from the Executive Office for Immigration Review , which oversees U.S. immigration courts.
Suniga said she fled violence in her home country but plans to return there because she fears for her daughter’s life in Tijuana. Guatemalan asylum seeker Nery R. Choc plays with his daughter Maylin A. Choc Xo in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge after being sent back under the"Remain In Mexico" program officially named Migrant Protection Protocols in Matamoros, Mexico October 5, 2019. Picture taken October 5, 2019. REUTERS/Veronica G. Cardenas
Although she explained Jacob’s condition to border agents, she said, the agents sent her and her children back to Ciudad Juarez, where the family ended up sleeping on the floor of a crowded shelter. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that lax U.S. asylum laws encourage people to show up at the border with their children. Before MPP, it was common practice to release arriving families into the United States to wait out their U.S. court hearings – something Trump and others said allowed many migrants to disappear into the country to live illegally.
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