The so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers expanded to another Mexican border city Tuesday with the arrival of a first group of migrants to Nuevo Laredo. The 10 migrants had crossed the border to seek U.S. asylum Monday and will now have to wait in Mexico as their applications are
1 / 3Mexico ImmigrationThe Ascencio family, from Venezuela, carry their luggage after being returned by U.S. authorities to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico as part of the first group of migrants to be sent back to Tamaulipas state under the so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Approximately 10 migrants crossed the border Monday to seek U.S. asylum and were sent back on Tuesday to wait as their applications are processed.
"We hadn't thought that they were going to send us back," she said. Her family was given a date in September to return for the next step in their process. U.S. border apprehensions were still 140% higher through the first six months of the year than the same period a year earlier, the agency said. Story continuesThe program's expansion to Tamaulipas was announced after the U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement to avert threatened tariffs on Mexican exports last month.
At the Casa AMAR migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, director Aaron Mendez said there was already a"humanitarian crisis" that the shelter lacked the resources to deal with.
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