Trump Admin Plans New Rule to Send Illegal Aliens Back to Home Country | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    The Trump administration is preparing to enact a new rule that will allow the federal government to send foreigners who enter the United States illegally and do not apply for asylum back to their home countries in Central America.

    The rule, set to be published on the federal registry on Tuesday, stems from new "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACA) with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador approved in the last several months.

    Under the new agreements, the three Central American countries are required to stop foreigners from attempting to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. Should a country fail to do so, and foreigners are eventually apprehended at the U.S. border, the U.S. government can send the foreigners back to the country through which they immigrated. The move follows a rise in "caravans," huge groups of Central Americans crossing numerous borders to get to the United States.

    "The United States recently signed bilateral ACAs with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in an effort to share the distribution of asylum claims," the new rule states. In an attempt to share the burden, "this interim rule is intended to aid the United States in its negotiations with foreign nations on migration issues."

    "Specifically, the rule will aid the United States as it seeks to develop a regional framework with other countries to more equitably distribute the burden of processing the protection claims of the hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants who now seek to enter the United States every year and claim a fear of return. Addressing the eligibility for asylum of aliens who enter or attempt to enter the United States will better position the United States as it engages in ongoing diplomatic negotiations with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) regarding migration issues in general, and related measures employed to curtail the irregular flow of aliens into the United States," the policy says.

    As part of the new policy, the three countries will receive increased law enforcement and monetary assistance from the U.S., including hundreds of millions of dollars the Trump administration has not passed along as the border crisis surged.

    The new rule follows another President Trump put in place earlier this year. The administration enacted the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which became known as the "Remain In Mexico" policy. The protocols require that foreigners who enter the U.S. illegally be processed, then released into Mexico - not the United States - to await their hearings.

    Instead of waiting, though, thousands of migrants who were returned to Mexico gave up their asylum claims and went home, Fox News reports.

• So far, the administration has returned more than 55,000 migrants to Mexico. The assessment describes the policy as an "indispensable tool in addressing the ongoing crisis at the southern border and restoring integrity to the immigration system." It says that it has completed almost 13,000 cases as of Oct. 21.
• The new assessment, significantly, cites estimates from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that approximately 20,000 migrants are currently being sheltered in Mexico near the U.S. border as they still seek entry to the U.S. The assessment says that number, though, suggests "a significant proportion of the 55,000+ MPP returnees have chosen to abandon their claims."

    In an assessment of the Migrant Protection Protocols filed last week, the government said, "At peak of the crisis in May 2019, there were more than 4,800 aliens crossing the border daily - representing an average of more than three apprehensions per minute."