15,709 asylum seekers returned to Mexico as U.S. ramps up policy

Washington — More than 15,000 asylum seekers have been returned to Mexico by U.S. authorities to await hearings in American immigration courts as the Trump administration accelerates a controversial policy it believes can help border officials cope with an unprecedented surge of families from Central America heading towards the southern border.

Under the policy — known as "Remain in Mexico" but officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) — 15,079 Central American migrants who claimed asylum at U.S. ports of entry along the southwestern border have been turned back to Mexican border cities as their petitions are processed in the immigration court system, a Mexican government official told CBS News Tuesday. About 5,000 of those migrants have been sent back over the past two weeks.
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