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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Daina Beth Solomon and Jose Luis Gonzalez

Some Venezuelan couples separated under new U.S.-Mexico migrant policy

Venezuelan migrants, expelled from the U.S., and sent back to Mexico under Title 42, stand outside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

A new U.S.-Mexico border policy geared at deterring Venezuelans fleeing hardship in their home country from entering the United States illegally has separated some families, migrants said on Friday, with several women known to have been sent back to Mexico as their husbands stayed on in the United States.

The separations of at least three married couples, as well as a mother returned without her 20-year-old son, occurred during some of the first expulsions of Venezuelans from the United States back to Mexico under the policy announced by officials from the two countries on Wednesday.

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