Re-entering US under Visa Waiver Program after time in Mexico

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If you've been outside the US for more than 90 days then it should not be necessary to leave Mexico. The regulation that is intended to prevent visa runs to adjacent countries is 8 CFR 217.3(b):

(b) Readmission after departure to contiguous territory or adjacent island. An alien admitted to the United States under this part may be readmitted to the United States after a departure to foreign contiguous territory or adjacent island for the balance of his or her original Visa Waiver Pilot Program admission period if he or she is otherwise admissible and meets all the conditions of this part with the exception of arrival on a signatory carrier.

Going to Central America is unlikely to help, as the only purpose of doing that is to render 217.3(b) inapplicable, but it is already inapplicable because it has already been more than 90 days since you were originally admitted to the US.

Since the balance of your original period will have expired, it will not be possible to readmit you under the original period of admission, so the officer have to consider whether to grant a new period of admission. As you will have been outside the US for a longer than 90 days and you will have proof of travel, you are unlikely to have trouble with that.

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