Mexico arrests 39 asylum seekers, pledges increased security near its border with US

Security officials in Mexico have arrested no less than 39 asylum seekers who tried to breach its border with the United States.

The arrests were also prompted after a march by refugees turned chaotic when US agents fired tear gas at migrants and refugees near the border.

Mexico authorities have also pledged to increase security near its border crossings and said it will deport some of the 500 asylum seekers who attempted to breach the United States border.

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Those who tried to “violently” and “illegally” enter the US would be deported immediately, the Mexican interior ministry said on Sunday.

“We are going to act and proceed to their deportation,” Mexico’s Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete told the Milenio television network. “Far from helping the caravan, they are hurting it.”

In order to halt an army of asylum seekers from other parts of America, the US has shut its borders and revealed that traffic at the San Ysidro port of entry has been suspended.

Reports say the US Customs and Border Protection has temporarily closed all vehicle and pedestrian traffic at the major San Ysidro port of entry between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California on Sunday.

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