‘Stay in Mexico’: US sends 2 men to revived policy in Mexico | Migration News

The United States has sent the first two people to Mexico Restore Trump-era politics which forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. courts.

The two men returned to the border crossing at El Paso, Texas in Ciudad Juarez Protocols for migrant protection (MPP).

US President Joe Biden’s administration and Mexican government announced Last week they reached an agreement to relaunch a controversial program also known as “Stay in Mexico.”

The movement has drawn widespread condemnation from international observers and human rights groups, who have called the policy a “humanitarian catastrophe” that threatens the lives of asylum seekers. violent border towns in Mexico.

CBP told us that 2 adult men had returned to the CD. Juárez, the first person to stay in Mexico / MPP 2.0 at 9:20 a.m. today, would be the only MPP to return today. CBP escorted them to the MX border line in the middle of the bridge, where they met with Mexican immigration and the military. https://t.co/FVdkumOLza pic.twitter.com/oDEyc0aU2x

– Julia Neusner (@JuliaNeusner) December 8, 2021

One of the two men returned to Mexico on Wednesday according to politics, who identified himself as Enrique Manzanares from Nicaragua, said he felt a little sad, but thanked God that he was still alive.

“In the end, nothing was lost,” Manzanares told Reuters. “Some of us get it, some of us don’t.”

A Mexican official confirmed the MPP’s reshuffle, saying it would be limited to two men on Wednesday.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry said last week that the resumption of the program was conditional on the U.S. offering COVID-19 vaccines to asylum seekers and exempting vulnerable groups.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump established in 2019, according to the MPP, that about 70,000 asylum seekers, including children, had been subjected to cartel violence and had lived in squalid camps in border towns in Mexico for months, as well as years.

On its first day, Biden ended new enrollments in the program, saying the policy was cruel, and in June, the MPP formally ended. But two U.S. states – Texas and Missouri – have sued the administration, saying they have ended politics badly.

In August, a judge appointed by Trump in Texas ruled in favor of the states and ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the program.

A spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security has begun re-establishing the MPP at a court-ordered location.

“For reasons of operational security, DHS does not share details such as the location of the initial refunds or the number of people enrolled,” a CBP spokesman told Reuters.

When fully operational, MPP returns will be made to seven ports in San Diego, Calexico, Nogales, El Paso, Eagle Pass, Laredo and Brownsville, CBP said.

Rights organizations have sued the Biden administration for reinstating the program.

“The policy is fundamentally unfair and is being used as an illegal deterrent – a place where people can legally seek asylum – to become a hotbed of human rights crises and violations,” said Tami Goodlette, director of refugee and refugee law. The Center for Immigrant Education and Legal Services (RAICES) said in a statement last week.

“The Bidenen administration needs to understand that there is no way to restore the so-called‘ Migrant Protection Protocols ’in a moral or humane way,” he said.

Title 42 remains in force for non-essential travelers despite the U.S. reopening the Mexican border. [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]

Biden, who campaigned on promises to introduce more humane immigration practices, has reversed several of Trump’s tough immigration policies.

But in the middle record high numbers As they reach the U.S.-Mexico border, Biden has kept it that way. “42. title”- Another policy first implemented by Trump that allows U.S. border agents to quickly expel asylum seekers arriving at the border by mentioning the risks of coronavirus.

The rule remains as valid as the US he reopened his frontier To non-essential travelers with Mexico.