REPORT: U.S. credits Mexico, Central America for helping to reduce border arrests

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Monday credited Mexico and Central American countries with helping to cut U.S. border arrests by nearly 60% from a record high earlier this year, but then lashed out at a federal judge for ruling against a strict anti-asylum policy.

With President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy shaping up as an issue in his 2020 re-election campaign, Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said that 64,000 people were detained or turned back at the southwest border in August. That was down 22% from July and 56% from a high mark in May.

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Even so, the total was the highest for any month of August in more than a decade, as Central American migrants have headed north in record numbers, many seeking asylum from impoverished countries with some of the highest murder rates in the world.

In May, the Trump administration threatened to place a 5% tariff on all goods imported from Mexico if the country did not establish policies to help stem the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.

“Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Monday that detentions and turnaways at the U.S.-Mexican border were down, an indication that fewer immigrants were making the effort to reach the U.S. Morgan pointed to the numbers as proof that the June deal was working,” the Washington Examiner reported. “‘The Northern Triangle countries especially, along with the government of Mexico, have really joined the United States as true partners for the first time,’ Morgan said. ‘They really are seeing this as a true regional crisis that needs continuing coordination cooperation and effort. That this is not just a United States problem, that this is a regional crisis that needs regional support and regional solutions.'”

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