Trump's "Remain in Mexico" Policy Appears to Be Working
UN buses load up Central Americans and take them home. But for how long?
By Todd Bensman on July 22, 2019
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The New York Times is crediting President Donald Trump's last set of policy tries for—at long last—a precipitous drop in illegal immigration from Central America. Specifically, the newspaper cited a highly deterring double play by Mexico, prompted by President Trump's arm-twisting.
One credited play was Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, formally called the Migrant Protection Protocols, where U.S. immigration authorities send asylum claimants to wait for their hearings in Mexican cities like Juarez rather than the incentivizing prospect of waiting inside the United States, where they can count on living for years illegally if their claims fail. The incentive of living in the United States illegally evidently has been turned off because failure of claims means the migrants instead have to live in Mexico and will not join America's swollen population of illegal millions who can't be effectively tracked down and deported.
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