“The US can’t just dump people into Mexico – they have to knock. And a backlog of nearly 1m cases in the US means asylum seekers could remain in Mexico for years. The US can’t just dump people into Mexico – they have to knock. Activists in Mexico say the “catch and return” policy would push conditions past breaking point. Several of the asylum seekers who had heard of the potential policy said they would simply wait it out in Mexico.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2019 07:00 UTC