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In the first 10 months since the policy took effect in San Diego, more than 55,000 asylum-seekers were returned to Mexico to wait for hearings.
The immigrants came from more than three dozen countries, but nearly two-thirds were Guatemalan or Honduran, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Previously, the thousands who traveled primarily from Guatemala and Honduras exerted an unsustainable strain on humanitarian services, putting the safety of especially the children that accompanied them at risk
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