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How US Government's 'Remain in Mexico' Plan Unfurled Into Confusion

Victoria Macchi

   LAREDO, TEXAS, AND NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - This is the second story in a
   series on how the U.S. government's Migrant Protection Protocols are
   being carried out in Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Read the
   first story [1]here.

   VOA News Center Immigration Reporter Ramon Taylor, and VOA Spanish
   Service reporters Jorge Agobian and Celia Mendoza contributed to this
   report.
   Like border cities everywhere, Nuevo Laredo is a portal. People and
   merchandise cross the five road and rail bridges between the U.S. and
   Mexico every day, in both directions, for work, school, business
   meetings, shopping, family visits, doctor appointments - the quotidian
   building blocks of life along the Rio Grande.

   Pay 25 cents and you can walk right across Puente #1, as it's known
   colloquially, in a few minutes if you're in a rush and there's no line
   at the immigration agent desks.

   Formally the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge, it links
   Laredo's historic city center neighborhood of San Agustin, to the
   commercial strip of shops, pharmacies and low-key lunchtime restaurants
   on Nuevo Laredo's Avenida Guerrero.

   It's at the end of this bridge, when entering Mexico from the U.S., in
   the parking lot built for buses and trucks at the Mexican immigration
   agency's customs office, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection
   officials have dropped off migrants and asylum-seekers sent back to
   Mexico under the Trump administration's Migration Protection Protocols
   (MPP) policy to wait for their immigration court dates.

References

   1. https://www.voanews.com/usa/immigration/migrants-assess-options-mexico-buses-them-us-border

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