After the executive order of Joe Biden will come into force with a series of restrictions for the request for political asylum in USAhe high flow of undocumented migrants trying to cross the northern border of Mexico has been reduced considerably.
These measures were implemented last week, through Biden’s executive order, which prohibits the entry of undocumented immigrants into the United States to apply. political asylum.
According to officials, the number of migrants who have been referred for deported “expeditiously” to their nations or expelled to Mexico after being detained at the border, have doubled in recent days.
“73% of family units and detained adults were processed for voluntary return or expedited deportation” from June 5 to June 12.
For his part, an official of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), stated that the number of arrests in the Step (Texas) have decreased a little,” so they have been seeing some “early signs that the number of apprehensions across the border is going down.”
Likewise, he added that since the measure was implemented “the number of adults and family units that are processed and detained for expedited deportation has doubled.”
Meanwhile, in the El Paso area, US authorities have built a processing center with the capacity 2,500 migrants. Border Patrol indicates that the majority of the migrants detainees have not been able to request asylum for fear of being returned to their countries of origin.
see more
#Number #asylum #applications #USA #reduced #due #restrictions #Joe #Biden