![]() Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports that 127,759 family-unit members from Central America’s Northern Triangle were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, or presented themselves at U.S.-Mexico border ports of entry. (Those released without undergoing the credible fear interview at the border would have to undergo the screening process with an asylum officer at a later time). “They weren’t detained long enough for that to happen, and ICE had nowhere to put them,” an unnamed Trump administration official told Blitzer. border were released into the country without first going through the credible-fear interview,” Jonathan Blitzer reported in the New Yorker this month. “In 2017, the majority of families seeking asylum at the U.S. The actual number that could be shipped back to Mexico, however, may be higher given the backlog in administering credible fear interviews. At that rate, of last year’s applicants alone perhaps 75,000 people (minus a few thousand Mexican citizens and others who are deemed vulnerable) might potentially have been sent back to Mexico to await their asylum decisions, had “Migrant Protection Protocols” been in place. Over the past several years, about 80 percent of applicants have passed their credible fear interviews. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) administered preliminary asylum screenings, known as “credible fear interviews,” for 92,959 migrants seeking protection in the United States who arrived at the southwest border.
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