8 minutes agoA million arrested at US border with Mexico
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(7 years ago)Nearly one million people have been arrested in the U.S. border with Mexico from October 2018 to the present, highest in 12 years, according to the U.S. Border Police. Operations at the southwestern United States reached nearly a million for fiscal year 2019, which ended in late September, Mark said. [...]
Operations at the southwestern United States reached nearly one million for fiscal year 2019, which ended in late September, Mark Morgan said by US Border Police at a press conference in Washington.
In 2019 the U.S. is facing illegal entrances from Mexico, mainly citizens of Central America who escape violence and poverty. This influx has caused a crisis at the border with overcrowded reception centres and desperate sewers, KosovoPress broadcast.
“Since then, the number of arrests has dropped to 52,000 in September”, Morgan said.
To reduce the number of unwanted foreigners to come, the US government is pressing in Mexico to deploy troops to its southern border to prevent the arrival of migrants, mainly from Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Mexico has agreed that asylum seekers will wait within its territory, so that their issue will be resolved in the US. Now there are 51,000 people in this situation.
Co-operation agreements with Central American countries where migrants come from are linked to the US, but human rights associations estimate that these countries are neither safe nor rich enough to accept migrants.
President Donald Trump's administration, which gives priority to fighting illegal immigration, is building a wall along the 3,200-km border with Mexico.
“in total, only 115km is equipped with a new security system that includes physical barriers, lighting routes and patrol”, Mark Morgan said.
He added that by 2020, when Trump will appear at the polls for a second term, border police expect the system to extend to 700 km of the border.
