SAN DIEGO—The Trump administration on Jan. 25 will start forcing some asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, launching what could become one of the more significant changes to the immigration system in years.
The changes will be introduced at San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing, according to a U.S. official familiar with the plan who spoke Jan. 24 on condition of anonymity because it’s not yet final. San Ysidro is the nation’s busiest crossing and the choice of asylum seekers who arrived at Tijuana, Mexico, in November in a caravan of more than 6,000 mostly Central American migrants.
