The move escalates the strategies used by the United States to keep asylum seekers from reaching its soil and requesting protection
Mexican immigration officers, accompanied by security forces, will be checking travelers’ documents before they enter the United States from the car lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry beginning Tuesday — a move that highlights Mexico’s escalating role in helping the U.S. control migration to the United States.
The current double layer of U.S. officials at the border has been around since at least last summer. It is a response to asylum seekers, particularly Russians,in the car lanes to request protection because they had few options for doing so under U.S. policies. “Mexico for decades did not want to be seen as an auxiliary or an appendage of U.S. border security policy,” Isacson said. “Five or 10 years ago it would’ve been unthinkable to see the Mexicans say ‘yes’ to something like this.”
“We are staffing quite a bit more workload with the same resources,” San Ysidro Port Director Mariza Marinin September, noting that agency hiring suffered at the onset of the pandemic. Officials from Mexico’s immigration agency, the Instituto Nacional de Migración, or INM, will run the inspection point and will be accompanied by security forces working in shifts, among them the Tijuana municipal police, state police from Baja California and the Mexican National Guard. Those who don’t have proper documents, Mexican officials said, will be taken to a Mexican immigration station for processing.
CBP began placing officers on the limit line after asylum seekers, mostly Russians, began using the car lanes last year as a way to reach U.S. soil. Asylum seekers must generally be on U.S. soil to begin the legal process to request protection in the United States. A man is handcuffed and taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Feb. 4, 2022.
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