It was the latest step by President Joe Biden to roll back some of former President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies. But the announcement comes days after the White House said authorities will be turning away a vast majority of migrants seeking asylum at the border.
...The reprocessing for those who were subject to the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols will begin on Feb. 19. There will be three ports of entry where people with asylum cases can be reprocessed. DHS officials, who said this is phase one of tackling MPP, noted more ports of entry may be added later.
The government estimates there are around 25,000 individuals who are waiting in Mexico under the policy. Up to 300 people will likely be reprocessed daily at the three ports of entry, DHS officials said.
...On Biden's first day in office, the DHS announced it would immediately stop sending asylum seekers to Mexico under the "Remain in Mexico" policy as of Jan. 21. But the department emphasized that would only apply to new enrollments in the program.
Biden also recently signed an executive order to review the MPP policy.
Top officials like former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf described the policy as a "game-changer." An agreement with the Mexican government has allowed U.S. border officials to send back more than 70,000 migrants to Mexico under the program, according to an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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Millions of Americans unemployed, struggling to find our path through this pandemic, and we’re opening our borders up to more people looking for work, who have not been vetted for character nor health. Kind of tells you everything you need to know about the agenda of the current administration. Help Americans? Yeah, right...
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