Update on President Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy
While some go home, others crash the border and run
By Todd Bensman on August 16, 2019
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — Last month in Juarez, I interviewed Central American migrants planning to return to their home countries rather than waiting in Mexico for U.S. asylum hearings. More than 25,000 of them had been ejected under President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy.
In a July 22 blog, I cited these return plans as early anecdotal indication that the Remain in Mexico policy, formally known as the Migration Protection Protocols or MPP appeared to be succeeding in demagnetizing the ultimate prize of living illegally in the United States once migrants lose claims to asylum.
Deterring Central Americans from making meritless asylum claims simply as a means of entering the U.S. was a primary deterring goal of the MPP. The Los Angeles Times followed my reporting on August 4, as have other media outlets since.
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