El Paso, United States: The US-Mexico border appeared calm on Friday as tough asylum rules come into force, with senior officials in Washington expressing confidence that the new system would work.
Thousands of people remained on the Mexican side of the frontier hoping to enter the United States, but the chaotic surge of migrants that right-wing politicians predicted failed to materialize.'We are seeing people arrive at our southern border, as we expected, as we have been planning for,' Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday.'We are screening and vetting them and if they do not have a basis to remain, we will remove them very swiftly.
He said around 26,500 migrants were waiting in Mexican cities along the long US frontier, and the situation was 'calm and normal.''The flux is dropping today. We have not had confrontations or situations of violence on the border,' Ebrard told reporters.Mexico's national immigration agency has ordered its offices to stop issuing documents authorizing migrants to transit through the country, officials said, in an apparent attempt to curb flows to the US border.
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