A U.N. program is helping migrants return home as they await immigration hearings. But many likely won't be allowed to cross back into Mexico.
Asylum-seeking migrants who return to Central America under a controversial U.S. State Department-funded program may not be allowed to legally reenter Mexico to return to the border for their U.S. immigration hearings, according to Mexican immigration officials.
The groups returning home include migrants who arrived with the Central American caravan last November; people who have been assigned a number to wait their turn in Tijuana to legally claim asylum in the U.S. and migrants who have already crossed into the United States but were returned to Mexico.Under their “Assisted Voluntary Return” program, the U.N.
Maureen Meyer, the director for Mexico and migrant rights at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights research and advocacy organization, said many of the migrants returning home may feel they have no choice when faced with the dangers of waiting in Mexico.
The policy removes a previous asylum screening step in which migrants are interviewed to establish whether they have a “credible fear” of returning home. Gascon said his agency is now responsible for carefully interviewing all “voluntary return” participants to ensure they are not fearful and that they want to go back home and that they clearly understand the potential consequences.
Gascon said he’s also heard of similar cases, of migrants wanting to return home to gather important documents relevant to their asylum case, but he said there’s no guarantee the migrants will be able to return through Mexico.“No mechanism has been put into place to guarantee when they leave southern Mexico and hand back over their humanitarian visa that they would have another migratory form given to them at a later date,” said Gascon, who said his agency makes that clear to people.
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