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October 18, 2021

Advocates Walk Out of Virtual Meeting with White House over "Remain in Mexico" Policy
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Immigrant justice advocates on Saturday walked out of a virtual meeting
with the Biden administration to protest its plans to resume the
contested Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program, formally known as
Migrant Protection Protocols, by mid-November. Before leaving the
meeting, advocates read a statement that said, "It is not possible to
make the inhumane humane, the unfair fair, or to breathe life into a
deadly program. We refuse to be complicit in deterrence-based border
policies." The move comes after the Supreme Court in August revived
"Remain in Mexico." The program forced some 70,000 asylum seekers to
wait in Mexico in often extremely dangerous conditions.


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