US-Mexico Border Has Closed Except for Essential Cargo
A White House press releases were produced in the course of the negotiation process in the Senate on a massive bill of economic recovery designed to counter the effects of home residence decrees as well as closures for plenty of businesses.
President Trump went on to say Friday that he invoked the Defense Production Act to boost the production of the urgently needed emergency supplies and that the USA and Mexico made an agreement that they limit all non-essential travel throughout their common border with an outlook of slowing coronavirus spread.
Moreover, according to the Chamber of Commerce, more than $1.6 billion works its way every day through the border. Also, approximately half a million legal professionals, students, customers and travelers pass together with their visas.
Pompeo clarified that the goal would not be to interfere with business, the United States and Mexico had been in negotiations so that laborers, which include legal agricultural workers, can continue crossing their borders for jobs.
The fragile economy of Mexico is likely to be affected even by a temporary closure of the border. Last year, Mexico reported almost flat growth and now seems to be heading for recession, predicted by analysts. In the wake of increasing worries about the effect of the virus and its subsequent fall in oil prices, Peso dropped to unprecedented depth this week.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador's plan was to keep the borders open. Despite the attempts from Trump to close the border in the past, López Obrador answered by rapidly increasing the deportation of illegal immigrants of Central American refugees, except for Mexico's attempts to stop illegal immigration.
The shutting down of borders for migrants meant that the plight of thousands of asylum seekers and others who live in development camps on Mexico's side of the border awaiting for their appeals to be considered will undoubtedly escalate. The administration has been accused of using the health crisis for any further infringement of the rights of migrants.
Trump rejected this, as well as those with Canada declared Wednesday by claiming that the latest border controls will "protect the health of all three nations and reduce the incentive for a mass global migration that would vastly deplete the resources that are all needed."
The new regulations arrived as authorities sought to get the nation ready for an increase in the number of citizens who had reported infections. With the tests rising, it will be predicted that the epidemic will be more extensive and now spreading to 50 countries, infecting over 14,000 people.
aAccording to the new regulations, instead of being arrested in the United States by the federal police, the Border Patrol will start to return all illegal immigrants directly back to Mexico or Canada instead of holding them in the US as per Chad Wolf, the acting Homeland Security secretary.
Multiple immigration analysts have seen the closing of the border last Friday as yet another further effort to deter asylum claims under the pandemic.
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