More Central American Asylum Seekers Returned to Mexico Under New Policy

The new migrant camp, 10 miles from the U.S. border, in the Mariano Matamoros neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 2, 2018. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The United States has returned the first group of asylum seekers to Mexico, where they will wait out their cases, after the start of a new Trump administration immigration policy.

A man named Carlos from Honduras arrived in Tijuana on January 29 under the new policy, called the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP). He is the first of many asylum seekers from the Northern Triangle who will be sent back to Mexico until their immigration court date in the United States—at which point, they will be allowed to enter the country to attend their hearings.