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Mexico Buses Home Migrants Who Gave Up on US Asylum Claims

Reuters

   CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO - Dozens of Central American migrants who were
   forced to wait in Mexico for their asylum claims to be processed in the
   United Stated opted Tuesday to return to their home countries with the
   Mexican government's help, the foreign ministry said.

   Sixty-six people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador had been sent
   back to Mexico's Ciudad Juarez opposite El Paso, Texas, after
   requesting asylum in the United States, the ministry said in a
   statement, under a contentious U.S policy known as Migration Protection
   Protocols (MPP).

   Mexico organized the return trip with the support of the U.N.-backed
   International Organization for Migration as part of its launch of a
   "temporary program of voluntary return" for migrants in northern
   Mexico, it said.