José Díaz Briseño / Correspondent
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 18:00
Washington DC, United States (May 11, 2023).- The Government of Mexico could transfer migrants from third countries deported by the United States under Title 8 to areas in southern Mexico once Title 42 expires tonight, said this Thursday the Biden Administration.
Just last week, the Government of Mexico promised to continue receiving migrants deported by the US under Title 8 when the deportations for health reasons under Title 42 conclude tonight; the migrants who are returned to Mexico would be from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.
“Migrants who enter the United States illegally by crossing the southern border (with Mexico) and not through a legal pathway, will be returned to Mexico and could be transported outside the northern border of Mexico to locations in southern Mexico,” he said. Troy Miller, Acting Chief of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The Secretary of Internal Security of the US, Alejandro Mayorkas, assured this Thursday from the White House that Mexico is carrying out various immigration control measures in coordination with the US to try to alleviate the pressure of migrants arriving at the common border after the end of Title 42.
Prior to the announcement made by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of sending more elements of the National Guard to the border with Guatemala, US officials had assured that Mexico would take visible actions; Mayorkas thanked AMLO’s immigration control efforts.
“Mexico is taking very important (immigration) control measures that we are very grateful for and that were taken in coordination with us,” Mayorkas said today when questioned at a press conference at the White House about Mexico’s efforts before the arrival of thousands of Migrants at the US border.
Less than twelve hours before the end of the migrant expulsion policy under Title 42, initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic, Mayorkas assured that flows to the border have increased and that more than 10,000 arrests are expected in a single day at the border
“We are working very closely with the Government of Mexico. The President (Joe Biden) has spoken with the President of Mexico as recently as the beginning of this week. They have had correspondence in the past week,” Mayorkas said without specifying the type of correspondence. to which he was referring.
According to the most recent security report by the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, from the beginning of May, the total number of troops from the National Guard, the Army and the Navy dedicated to migratory work amounted to a total of more than 25 thousand elements.
The Government of López Obrador accepted last week to receive returns of migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti from the US despite the end of the Title 42 policy; migrants will be processed under two categories upon their return to Mexico: by deportation or by voluntary return.
