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Mexico’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday a Trump-era program
that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration
hearings, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), had come
to an end, Trend
reports citing Reuters.
Mexico will continue to guarantee the adequate stay and
protection of the remaining migrants in national territory under
the program “at this stage,” the ministry said in a statement.
In August, the Supreme Court gave a green light to Democratic
President Joe Biden’s administration’s rolling back the
program.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said then it would no
longer enroll new migrants in MPP and those waiting in Mexico would
leave the program as they returned to the United States for their
court dates.
An official at Mexico’s foreign ministry, Roberto Velasco, said
in a column published Tuesday morning that less than 100 MPP cases
remained active.
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