Mexico says will not accept return of at-risk U.S. asylum seekers

FILE PHOTO: Migrant families seeking asylum from Central America walk down a dirt road after illegally crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. from Mexico in Penitas, Texas, U.S., January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two U.S.-Mexico meetings have been held to work out details of a new plan to return across the shared border migrants seeking U.S. asylum, but Mexico will not accept anybody facing a credible threat back home, a Mexico Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

In a major policy change, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Dec. 20 it would send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their U.S. asylum requests are processed.