The US says that migrant income from Mexico falls by half after rule change

The amount of migrants intercepted by the authorities Americans on the border with Mexico It was halved after the end of a regulation adopted during the covid-19 pandemic, the Secretary of Homeland Security said this Sunday.

“In the last two days, the border patrol of USA saw a 50% drop in the number of encounters compared to what we experienced earlier in the week“, he pointed Alejandro Mayorkas to the CNN program “State of the Union”.

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According to the official, around 6,300 migrants they crossed the border with Mexico on Friday and 4,200 on Saturday, numbers he described as “remarkably low” compared to the 10,000 daily crossings registered at the beginning of the week.

But he stressed that “it’s still early” to make diagnoses. “We are only in the third day” he stated, referring to the lifting of the mechanism called “Title 42″, added Mayorkas, avoiding any triumphalism.

Title 42, the rule that expired on Thursday at 11:59 p.m. Washingtonallowed the immediate expulsion of migrants without a visa or documentation, including asylum seekers, in the name of the health emergency.

To avoid the massive influx of migrants after his uprising, the government of the Democratic president Joe Biden it deployed thousands of police and soldiers in the almost 3,200 km that separate the United States and Mexico, and approved new restrictions on the right to asylum.

Before appearing at the border, migrants must previously obtain an appointment through a mobile application for the centralization of asylum applications, the CBP Oneor your asylum application must have been rejected in one of the transit countries.

Otherwise, they may be subject to expedited removal proceedings to their home countries and a five-year ban on entry to US territory.

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“We are implementing our plan exactly as plannedMayorkas told ABC. “We have already expelled thousands of migrants: if they try to return, they will face a five-year ban and possible criminal prosecution”, he stressed.

the republican congressman Mark Greenpresident of the national security committee in the House of RepresentativesHe questioned the figures.

“This week has seen more crosses than any other week in our history.”, he told CNN. She attributed it to an increase in the number of people who crossed the border before Title 42 expired.

Source: Elcomercio

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