Authorities Praise U.S. Repatriation Flights
From Times Wire Reports
A trial program of repatriation flights for undocumented Mexicans caught on the U.S. border has helped cut migrant deaths and eased social woes in frontier towns, Mexican authorities say.
The temporary U.S. initiative repatriated nearly 14,000 Mexican volunteers on daily charter flights from Tucson to Mexico City and Guadalajara.
Mexican migrant welfare organization Grupo Beta said the program had also helped many migrants who might otherwise have become stranded along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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