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June 23, 2021

Biden Admin to Reconsider Cases of Rejected Asylum Seekers Subjected to "Remain in Mexico" Plan
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The Biden administration will allow asylum seekers who were enrolled in
Trump's "Remain in Mexico" program and ordered deported to their home
countries to revive their asylum cases. Under Remain in Mexico,
thousands of asylum seekers were forced to wait in often dangerous
conditions in Mexico while their cases made their way through U.S.
courts. Buzz Feed reports many of them were denied asylum because they
couldn't make it to court because conditions were too dangerous to
travel, while other asylum seekers never arrived at their court hearings
in the U.S. because they were kidnapped by cartels, were ill or denied
entry because they were pregnant.

This comes as immigrant justice advocates continue to denounce the Biden
administration for expelling and turning away asylum seekers who
recently arrived to the U.S.-Mexico border. As of June, the group Human
Rights First has tracked 3,250 kidnappings and other attacks, including
rape, human trafficking and violent armed assaults, against asylum
seekers and migrants expelled at the U.S.-Mexico border since President
Biden took office.


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