Secretary of State Marco Rubio said immigrants, disappointed by President Trump's tough immigration policies, have “U-turns” to their country.
Rubio said he is working to establish relations between other countries, particularly Central America, as part of the Trump administration's efforts to stop the flow of immigration across the southern border and send immigrants back to their home countries.
“I called one of these countries yesterday. Now they're making U-turns to people. They're heading towards here and they get, get, get, get, [the US is] I'm not playing anymore, but President Trump was serious and they made U-turns,” Rubio appeared on Fox and Friends on Wednesday morning.
“They are about to return to their country. We are seeing it happen. And that's the result of President Trump's very clear leadership on migration,” he added.
“People who come here realize this isn't the case. [former President] Joe Biden,” the secretary said. “Under President Trump, you can't just come in and claim exile and stay forever.”
Rubio said some of the countries he speaks of have agreed not only to receive repatriation flights of his people, but also to take people from other countries that have illegally entered the United States.
“We can send them to those countries, they can return to their home countries, or they can go to these countries. These are powerful tools, and that's why you're seeing historically few numbers under President Trump now,” he said.
The illegal border crossing has plummeted to levels not seen in decades after Trump's rapid crackdown on illegal immigration. He told CBS News last week.
What authorities call the “reverse flow” of immigration, Panama's speedboat, once part of the lucrative human smuggling that transported to the US border, is now back in a country where asylum seekers have fled.
Many of them waited several months in Mexico (and sometimes more than a year) to obtain asylum appointments in the US through the Biden era CBP one app.
“When Trump arrived and eliminated the application (CBP 1), all our hopes rose with smoke,” said Cara Castillo, a 36-year-old Venezuelan traveling south with his sister.
With post wire
