The US government will give a new opportunity to thousands of asylum seekers whose requests were rejected or rejected in immigration courts through the ‘Stay in Mexico’ program
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Tuesday, November 5
Biden will give rejected asylum seekers a second chance
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Tuesday that it expanded its eligibility criteria so that thousands of migrants enrolled in the program – officially called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) – can enter the United States and apply for asylum from here, rather than from Mexico.
“As part of our ongoing effort to restore processing safe, orderly and humane on the southwest border, DHS will expand the pool of people enrolled in MPP who are eligible for processing in the United States, ”said the agency
Many of The asylum applications that were processed under ‘Stay in Mexico’ were denied after the migrants were returned to that country pending an appointment with an immigration judge. Some of them denounced that they could not attend for fear of being kidnapped in dangerous cities, due to lack of resources or illness. Sometimes appointments were scheduled at times as inconvenient as 4: 23 am. Many of them were also unable to access lawyers to guide and represent them.
It is not clear how many people will be eligible to be released in the United States pending a decision on their cases. But Michele Klein Solomon, director of the International Organization for Migration for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, told The Associated Press that estimates that at least 10, 000 people benefit.
However, this could be a very low estimate, since almost 7, 000 cases were dismissed under ‘Stay in Mexico’ and more than 32, were denied , according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. It is unknown how many cases were specifically denied for failure to appear in court.
DHS said that, as of this Wednesday 23 June, those migrants Subjects of the MPP program whose cases were dismissed or denied may register to claim their entry to the United States for a second chance to appear in immigration court.
Persons eligible for be processed in the United States “must remain where they are currently and register online,” clarified the agency. <
The website where they can register from this Wednesday is at Spanish: https://conecta.acnur.org.
Many of those returned migrants may have left the Mexican border region where they camped for months in makeshift tents in hopes of being admitted, and that the Bide Administration’s announcement n cause them to re-embark on the dangerous path to the border.
Migrants who are admitted to enter the United States are expected to be taken to the border, where they will be will conduct COVID tests – 19 before allowing entry.
DHS recalled Tuesday that the fact that the Biden Administration had ended ‘Stay in Mexico’ “does not affect the processing of eligible individuals” to enter the United States to fight their asylum cases.
In the two years that have elapsed since January from 2021 until it was paused On the first day of Biden’s tenure, the program caused the expulsion of some 60, 000 asylum seekers to Mexico.
The Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorka s, had said in early June that the costs of maintaining this Trump-era policy far outweighed any benefits.
