CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans seeking refuge in the United States to escape violence and lawlessness in their homeland fear worse dangers if they are sent to Guatemala under a new Trump administration scheme to crack down on asylum seekers. Under U.S. rules made public on Monday
1 / 6Mexican asylum seekers, who are camping near the Paso del Norte international border crossing bridge while waiting to apply for asylum to the U.S., stand outside their tents in Ciudad JuarezBy Julio-Cesar Chavez and Lizbeth Diaz
U.S. President Donald Trump last year reacted to a surge in Central Americans requesting asylum with a series of policies aimed at keeping them out of the United States. The latest rules apply to migrants from Mexico as well as Honduras and El Salvador, according to guidance documents, and will likely have the effect of suppressing Mexican access to U.S. asylum.
"I can't go home, they've already kidnapped my brother and son," said Carlos, a Mexican seeking to reach the United States via the border city of Tijuana. He said he had fled criminal gangs in the southwestern state of Guerrero. In the last few years, the difference has narrowed as Mexico's murder tally, fueled by turf wars between drug gangs, rose to record levels and Guatemala's declined.
"Going to Guatemala is like walking straight into the lion's den," Eugenio said, explaining he feared that the criminals he said had threatened his family in central Mexico could track him down across the fluid southern border. If he failed to get asylum in the United States, he said, he would try Canada.
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