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Trump Administration Touts Drop in US Border Arrivals

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   VOA's Victoria Macchi contributed to this report.

   The Trump administration is touting a drop in enforcement actions along
   the U.S.-Mexico border for a fourth straight month as proof it is
   successfully reducing illegal immigration into the United States.

   "This administration's strategies have brought about results --
   dramatic results," Acting Customs and Border Protection [CBP]
   Commissioner [1]Mark Morgan said at the White House Tuesday.

   The agency reported intercepting 52,546 people at the southwest border
   in September, including unauthorized crossings as well as those deemed
   inadmissible at legal border crossings. That constituted a 63%
   reduction from the 144,255 people apprehended or turned back in May,
   the highest monthly total of the 2019 fiscal year, which ended last
   month.

   Declining numbers coincided with the Trump administration's
   implementation of policies restricting access to asylum that have
   prompted outcries from human rights advocates.

   Earlier this year, the administration began forcing asylum-seekers and
   other migrants to await their U.S. immigration court dates in Mexico.
   Under the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the "Remain in
   Mexico" policy, more than 50,000 individuals have been returned across
   the border.
   Migrants fleeing poverty and the threat of violence have found
   themselves caught up in fast-shifting US immigration and asylum laws

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