Bensman: Why reviving Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ policy will swiftly reduce border chaos
By Todd Bensman | Commentary, The Federalist
Remain in Mexico worked very well under President Trump’s first term and foreshadows a more tranquil border very soon.
In July 2019, I crossed the international bridge from El Paso into the sprawling Mexican border city of Juárez to gauge the effects of President Donald Trump’s so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy.
On that blazing hot summer day, as 20,000 of an eventual 75,000 had just been expelled under the policy, I made my way by taxi to a shelter high up on a rise in the dangerous neighborhood of Anapra. The shelter is within eyesight of Mexico’s side of the American wall and El Paso beyond. I was soon interviewing recent expellee Veronica Janeth Tejeda of Yoro in northwestern Honduras as she played with one of her two expelled chi...