“It’s safe passage for those families and unaccompanied minors,” Conway said.
During a Sunday interview on Meet The Press, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared to question why migrants seeking asylum in the United States don’t “wait in Mexico” while their cases work their way through the overloaded immigration system.
“It’s safe passage for those families and unaccompanied minors,” Conway added, referring to The Migrant Protection Protocols program, brokered between the U.S. and Mexico. Intended to repel migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, the program marks a sharp departure from how the U.S. has long processed asylum claims.
Critics, meanwhile, have decried the shift, arguing that it creates a logistical nightmare that dumps responsibility onto Mexico and convolutes interviewing requirements. There is currently a backlog of over one million cases in immigration courts, meaning some migrants must wait years for their cases to be concluded, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Access Records Clearinghouse, which tracks data from immigration courts.
On Friday, a federal appeals court judge ruled that the Trump administration could temporarily continue with the program.
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