Trump's ambassador to Mexico 'hit the roof' after Mexican gov't changed migrant policies: book
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President Trump's ambassador to Mexico "hit the roof" in the final days of the Trump administration when Mexico pushed through a controversial immigration reform measure.
The law, "Various Articles of the Migration Law and the Law on Refugees are Reformed, Complementary Protection and Political Asylum in the Matter of Migrant Children" went into effect on Jan. 11 2021, and meant that Mexican states had the authority to refuse U.S. expulsions of migrant families under the Title 42 public health order. The most significant of those states was Tamaulipas, one of the main traffic routes for migrants. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
"The collective effect of the ‘reforms in favor of migrant children and adolescents, asylum seekers and refugees’ was that thousands of migrant families found that they were not only freed from Mexican detention centers, but that, when they crossed the U.S. border, the Americans would have to keep them," Bensman summarizes. "A massive breach was thus opened into America through which an unremitting onslaught of migrant families would pour for years." He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.