Man who has not been identified had attempted to cross from Reynosa into Pharr, Texas, on WednesdayMexican man kills himself on bridge after being refused entry to USA Mexican asylum seeker has taken his own life on a bridge across the Rio Grande after being refused entry to the US, in an incident highlighting the often desperate plights of those being turned away by Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration. But he was turned back on the international bridge and shortly after 5pm cut his own throat. In 2017, a 45-year-old Mexican migrant named Guadalupe Olivas Valencia jumped to his death in Tijuana less than an hour after being “repatriated” from the US. Activists claim the initiative is endangering vulnerable asylum seekers by forcing them to wait months for court hearings in some of Mexico’s most dangerous border towns. “All these polices are edging us closer and closer to zero refugees or asylum seekers [being] admitted to the US,” Kizuka said.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2020 19:30 UTC