Mexico Blocks Returning Migrant Families, Threatening Already Full US Detention Centers: REPORT
District of Columbia | August 3, 2021
U.S. officials will no longer be able to rapidly expel migrant families to Mexico if they aren’t from the country, potentially stressing already crowded U.S. detention facilities, according to multiple reports.
Mexico stopped accepting migrant families from countries other than Mexico expelled by U.S. officials under the Trump-era public health order Title 42, MyRGV first reported last week. The Washington Examiner confirmed the report Tuesday.
The change could mean overcrowding at U.S. detention centers or border officials releasing more migrants into communities, the Examiner reported.
“Mexico won’t accept title 42 from other areas along the border,” an official reportedly told the Examiner. (RELATED: ‘The Largest Group…We’ve Ever Seen’: Thousands Of Illegal Migrants Appear To Crowd Under Texas Bridge)
Mexico stopped accepting migrant families who were apprehended at one place on the southern border and transported hundreds of miles away for expulsion on Wednesday, a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official reportedly told the Examiner…. (Excerpts from Daily Caller)