US to Make Asylum Seekers Wait in Mexico

Migrants walk back to their camp after a failed attempt to rush the U.S. border and enter illegally, just west of the San Ysidro crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 25, 2018. The fence in the background is not the border, it's a secondary fence on the Mexico side. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The United States will make illegal immigrants who apply for asylum after entering the country wait in Mexico while their applications go through the court system.

Previously, immigrants were released into the United States, under what was known as “catch and release.”