2023-07-28 20:24:14
The United States Government announced this Friday that it will accept asylum requests from migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are already in Mexico, in an attempt to clear the border on the Mexican side.
The announcement is the result of an agreement with the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which comes days following a meeting in Mexico City between a US delegation and the Latin American president, the White House national security adviser said in a statement. Jake Sullivan.
As part of this agreement, the Mexican Executive has committed to creating a “multipurpose international space” in southern Mexico to offer new asylum and employment options to the most vulnerable people in the country, detailed the White House. .
The White House does not specify what this “multipurpose international space” will consist of and the Mexican government has not yet offered details in this regard.
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The United States has returned 4,000 Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants to Mexico since it implemented a new deportation policy in May that replaced Title 42, used during the covid-19 pandemic.
At a press conference, Blas Núñez-Neto, Undersecretary for Border Policy and Immigration at the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that “this model works,” since migrant flows have dropped to levels not seen for two years.
Under these new restrictions, the United States has returned to Mexico 4,000 Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants who crossed the border without permission, Núñez-Neto said.
“I have been working on migration issues for two decades and I have never seen the level of collaboration that we are seeing” between the United States and Mexico, the undersecretary said.
Last Tuesday, a federal judge in California blocked these new restrictions, implemented last May following the end of Title 42.
Judge Jon S. Tigar of the Northern District of California ruled in favor of a civil group lawsuit that rejects the measure, considering that it violates US asylum laws. and puts applicants in grave danger.
The Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, disagreed with the ruling and clarified that the decision “does not change anything immediately” and does not limit the ability to impose sanctions on foreigners who enter illegally.
One day before the California judge’s decision was announced, Blas Núñez-Neto already warned that the US government is willing to go as far as the Supreme Court to defend the rule.
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