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From Fox News: A growing number of migrants are weighing returning home rather than facing the consequences of President-elect Trump’s planned border policies, according to a new report.
Mexican officials say between 50 and 100 migrants are now requesting “voluntary return” to their own countries, with migrants either covering their own costs or relying on state funds. Some migrants credit their apprehension to Trump’s plans to eliminate a U.S. government app used to claim asylum with border agents.
“I trust I will arrive before Mr. Trump takes office,” one migrant, Johana, told Reuters. “If it’s not by appointment, there’s always a way.”
President Biden’s administration has used the application to allow hundreds of thousands migrants to schedule border crossings and claim asylum in the U.S. Officials with the incoming Trump administration have said they will eliminate the program as well as re-institute the “remain in Mexico” policy.
Amid violence in Mexico and uncertainty over President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, some migrants say they’re considering returning to the countries they’ve fled https://t.co/6Yq4Jo2VV0 pic.twitter.com/75xUQzMz3d
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 4, 2024
President-elect Trump announced last Friday that Mexico has agreed to stop the migrant caravans, after he threatened to slap huge tariffs on them if they didn’t.
“Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border. We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, U.S. consumption of these drugs. It was a very productive conversation!” he wrote.
“Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately. THIS WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARD STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE USA. Thank you!!!” Trump added.
Reuters announced in a report on Wednesday:
Mexican authorities detained more than 5,200 migrants across the country on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday, in a major sweep as the nation is under pressure from the incoming U.S. government to crack down on arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has called on Mexico to ramp up efforts to stop both migrants and synthetic drugs such as fentanyl from coming into the U.S., threatening to slap tariffs on the southern trade partner.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said last week that a recent migrant caravan traveling through the south of the country would not make it north as migration authorities were “tending to” those remaining.
Mexico detains more than 5,200 migrants in single day https://t.co/TA7qdOntpc pic.twitter.com/bw0QyKpFuj
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 4, 2024
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