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The Biden administration has flown roughly 2,000 asylum seekers all families with children from Texas to San Diego and expelled them from the United States to Mexico without giving them a chance to request protection.
Tijuana has been receiving on average about 100 expelled people a day from the flights, according to the Mexican Consulate in San Diego. Mexican immigration officials generally transport the families to migrant shelters. The primary shelter is currently filled with hundreds of parents and children.
The flights, which have not received much attention since they started in mid-March, mirror strategies used by President Biden’s predecessor, former President Trump, to try to deter people from coming by putting those who do come in difficult situations in Mexico.