Mexico says migrant numbers will fall further, wants no clash with U.S.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico took issue on Thursday with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting a Trump administration request to fully enforce a new rule curtailing asylum applications by immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“This is the ruling by the court, it’s a U.S. issue, and obviously we don’t agree with it, we have a different policy,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told a regular news conference. Mexico’s government has consistently favored alleviating migratory pressures by helping to develop the countries that send the bulk of migrants north, the Central American trio of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
This week Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said that 64,000 people were detained or turned back at the U.S. southwest border in August. That was down 22% from July and 56% from a high mark in May. The two governments agreed to take stock of that effort after 90 days and Ebrard held talks with senior U.S. officials in Washington on Tuesday to review the results. He afterwards said the country was a long way from facing tariffs.
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