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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US border guards have arrested or arrested about a million immigrants on the southern border with Mexico in the past 12 months, acting US Customs and Border Protection Director Mark Morgan said on Monday, citing the lack of official documents.
Morgan said in a statement at the White House that the Customs and Border Protection Agency continues to cooperate with Washington's external partners, especially Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to address the matter as a regional crisis.
The US administration ordered the expulsion of any asylum-seeker and his return to Mexico in defiance of a court order prohibiting this order.
Protesters on Friday forced Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAllen to leave a panel discussion on immigration in the US capital after repeatedly boycotting him, denouncing the crackdown on asylum seekers by the Trump administration.
Trump has adopted a policy of militancy and intolerance in the immigration dossier. A report in the New York Times this month revealed that he had proposed more than once to dig a ditch to fortify the border wall with Mexico and filled it with snakes or crocodiles. To shoot at migrants if they throw stones at them.
