President Barack
Obama’s administration is planning a vast operation to round up and expel from
the United States migrant families who fled drought and violence in Central
America, reports said Thursday.
Any
such crackdown would be hugely controversial, with immigration one of the
hottest topics in the 2016 presidential campaign, and rights groups expressed
grave concern at the deportations.
The
flow of families and unaccompanied children crossing into the United States
from Mexico slowed this year, but the numbers surged upwards again in October
and November.
Several
Latin American countries are in the grip of violent lawlessness and the El Nino
weather pattern has plunged a number of countries in the region into drought.
The
Department of Homeland Security did not dispute anonymously sourced reports in
The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal that a crackdown is imminent.
According
to the reports, hundreds of families living in the United States whose asylum
requests have been denied will be rounded up and sent home.
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