Dozens of Central American migrants who were forced to wait in Mexico for their ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Dozens of Central American migrants who were forced to wait in Mexico for their asylum claims to be processed in the United Stated opted on Tuesday to return to their home countries with the Mexican government’s help, the foreign ministry said.
Sixty-six people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador had been sent back to Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez opposite El Paso, Texas, after requesting asylum in the United States, the ministry said in a statement, under a contentious U.S policy known as Migration Protection Protocols . U.S. asylum cases can take months or years to be decided because of a massive backlog of immigration court cases. Even hearings can take months to be scheduled.
More than 15,000 migrants claiming asylum in the United States after crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, most of them Central Americans, have been sent back to Mexico to wait for their cases to be processed since January under MPP, according to Mexican officials.
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