5 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden’s deputies have demolished the diplomatic border wall that allowed U.S. border agencies to swiftly reject economic migrants arriving from South America, Africa, India, and many other countries.
“This is just excellent news,” tweeted Clara Long, an associate director at HRW.org, a pro-migration group.
The wall was the U.S.-Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA), which allowed U.S. agents to fly almost any migrant to Guatemala if they traveled through Guatemala on their way toward the U.S. border. That legal capability was extensive because Guatemala covers the full width of Central America. To avoid entering Guatemala, migrants from South America would have had to travel by sea around the country.
WashPost: Mexico Ends Trump-Era Border Cooperation
4 Feb 2021
Mexico has stopped accepting the return of most migrants caught at the U.S. border, prompting U.S. officials to release them into the United States, according to the
Washington Post.
The Mexican government has stopped taking back Central American families “expelled” at the U.S. border under a Trump-era emergency health order related to the coronavirus, a shift that has prompted U.S. Customs and Border Protection to release more parents and children into the U.S. interior, according to five U.S. officials.
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Mexico’s new policy has been applied unevenly. In Nogales, for example, families continued to be returned to Mexico deposited on the streets rather than taken to family shelters. In a number of border cities, families continue to be returned to Mexico.