This will a reversal of the Trump admin policy….
Mexico had advised that they would no longer accept children and m0ther’s returned back to Mexico from the US for certain reasons also…
The asylum seekers are different from those that just come to cross the border without seeking relief from physical harm in their country….
The asylum seeks will be channelled to specific border crossing stations….
The system will seek to clear its backlog cases first….
There are tens’d of thousand waiting in line in Mexico….
There are about 25,000 migrants with active cases under MPP, but the new program will first focus on those who have been waiting in the program the longest and vulnerable populations, administration officials said in a news briefing on Thursday night.
The Biden administration’s plan is to work with the Mexican government, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations in Mexico to identify eligible migrants and begin transporting them to certain ports of entry to process their cases and let them into the U.S. Details of the plan were first reported by CNN and BuzzFeed News on Thursday.
Migrants with active cases should not go to a U.S. port of entry until they receive guidance, administration officials said. Those in the first phase will be processed at three ports of entry in the first phase, with most of the work being done at two ports. (The administration officials would not disclose which are the three ports.) Officials said that once processing was up and running, they expected to be able to process up to 300 people a day at each of the two main ports.
Migrants being processed through the program will be tested for Covid-19 before entering the U.S. And once here, they will be enrolled in an “alternative to detention program” to track them and their cases will be routed to the appropriate court tied to where they settle in the country, administration officials said.
President Joe Biden has long vowed to end the program, which has resulted in tens of thousands of asylum seekers being forced to stay in Mexico, often under poor living conditions and facing danger. On Biden’s first day in office, DHS announced that it would not enroll anyone else in the program. Last week, Biden signed an executive order that tasked Mayorkas with reviewing the program….