US starts sending asylum seekers back to Mexico

Migrants whose asylum application process is being examined by the US courts have begun to be returned to Mexico. Strongly criticized by the opposition, Donald Trump wanted to introduce this measure to respond to the 2000% increase in five years of asylum claims in the United States.

The United States began Tuesday to return migrants seeking asylum to Mexico during the US court review, as part of a new measure by President Donald Trump criticized by the Democratic opposition as well as by the US. Mexican authorities.

A first Honduran migrant, Carlos Gomez, 55, was taken back to the Mexican side of the border in the middle of the day in Tijuana, a northwestern town that borders San Diego, California. Wearing a cap and carrying a backpack, he was taken in charge by the Mexican migration authorities who took him to a shelter. "I'm very tired (...) I'm going to a place outside Tijuana," he told AFP. This migrant had arrived at the American border with the big caravan coming from Honduras that had gathered more than 7000 people at the end of October. He entered the United States in November.

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