NEW: An internal email obtained by NBCNews reveals plans to expand the 'Remain in Mexico' policy for asylum seekers to the Tucson, Arizona, sector on Friday.
CBP is already sending non-Mexican asylum seekers, mainly from Central America, back into Mexico if they cross into the El Paso and Rio Grande Valley sectors of Texas.
CBP referred NBC News to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In October, 6,352 undocumented immigrants crossed into the Tucson sector, a 262-mile stretch of border between the New Mexico state line and the eastern edge of Arizona's Yuma County, though how many claimed asylum is unknown. Tucson was second in migrant crossings only to the Rio Grande Valley sector, which had nearly 10,000 last month.
Since Remain in Mexico went into effect in January, immigration lawyers have challenged the policy in court, claiming that asylum seekers are having their rights violated by being made to waitImmigrants are brought to court rooms set up in tents on the U.S. side of the border and are facing year-long wait times for a final adjudication of their case.The Trump administration unveiled another policy limiting the rights of asylum seekers this week.
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