The Trump Administration Plans To Expand Its Plan To Keep Asylum Seekers In Mexico
The planned expansion of the policy — called Migration Protection Protocols — represents the latest administration’s latest attempt to institute sweeping changes to dissuade asylum seekers from crossing the border and entering the country. In general, asylum seekers arrive at the US and claim they are experiencing persecution or are being targeted for harm in their home countries because of who they are or circumstances out of their control.
“We want to take this in a methodical approach,” one DHS official said, saying that the expansion had taken “longer than anticipated.” The policy, the officials said, was just one way to stem the “illegal flow of migrants” that are crossing the border.in federal court in San Francisco challenging the policy on Feb. 14 on behalf of 11 individuals seeking asylum who were taken back to Mexico.
“There’s no secret they intended to expand it,” said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “It’s why we went to court to enjoin it. It is affecting people in a significant way and we don’t want it to be expanded. It is illegal, cruel and violates people’s rights to provide an opportunity to seek asylum and not be sent back to danger.”
One of the plaintiffs, named “Howard Doe,” was kidnapped and held by a Mexican drug cartel on his way to the southwestern border for two weeks, according to the suit. He escaped, but he fears that the cartel will track him down as he waits in Mexico for his immigration case to proceed. Almost none of the plaintiffs, the ACLU said, were asked about their fear of being returned to Mexico.
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