US President Joe Biden’s administration moved – for a second time – to end the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), a policy initiated by his predecessor Donald Trump that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their court hearings.Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a memo issued on Friday that the policy, also known as “Remain in Mexico” likely contributed to a decrease in the number of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in 2019, but it also needlessly exposed people to danger.“I have determined that MPP should be terminated,” Mayorkas said in the memo. “In reaching this conclusion, I recognize that MPP likely contributed to reduced migratory flows. But it did so by imposing substantial and unjustifiable human costs on the individuals who were exposed to harm while waiting in Mexico.”
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