U.S. plan to keep asylum seekers in Mexico sows confusion


  • World
  • Saturday, 22 Dec 2018

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard looks on during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo

MEXICO CITY/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Mexican and U.S. officials charged with carrying out a radical new change in U.S. immigration policy to process asylum seekers in Mexico say they have not been informed about how the plan will work in practice .

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and the Mexican government released simultaneous announcements about the plan on Thursday but said details about the rollout would be forthcoming.

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