The United States has ordered the deployment of 750 additional agents to the Mexican border and toughens the "return" policy of migrants

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen delivered a memorandum to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in which It details the new measures that the agency must take to combat "the growing humanitarian and security crisis on the southern border".

"The crisis at our border is worsening and the US Department of Homeland Security will do everything in its power to stop it," Nielsen said in a statement. "We will not stand by as long as Congress does not act, so that all options are on the table, we will immediately redistribute hundreds of CBP personnel to the border to deal with this. emergency situation. And we will require that those seeking to enter the United States wait in Mexico until an immigration court reviews their claims."he explained.

Nielsen ordered Commissioner McAleenan to undertake emergency operations and "immediately increase your temporary rebadignment of staff and resources throughout the agency to deal with the influx of migrants". According to the directive, the CBP Field Operations Office accelerate the planned rebadignment of 750 officers in the Border Patrol Sector.

In addition, enabled the extension of the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), a DHS initiative aimed at sending foreigners back to Mexico to wait during the US immigration process..

Thus, he ordered that "we send back to Mexico hundreds of additional migrants per day above current rates, in accordance with US law and humanitarian obligations."

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