This week marks the one-year anniversary of the 'Remain in Mexico' policy, and advocates say the Trump administration's rule has put asylum-seekers in harm's way.
released last week that it had tracked more than 800 public reports of “murder, torture, rape, kidnapping and other violent attacks against asylum-seekers and migrants returned to Mexico” under the program, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols .
Migrants who returned to Mexico from the U.S. under the Migrant Protection Protocols program line up for food at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez on Sept. 26, 2019.Nearly 30,000 cases remain pending, but only 187 have been granted relief, according to the data. More than 19,000 have been given removal orders while another 9,000 had their proceedings terminated. Asylum is already a difficult form of relief to win, with recent data showing only a 20 percent approval rate.
Albert, a Honduran migrant and the father of four, came to Tijuana in the fall of 2018 seeking protection from the criminals who had pursued him in retaliation for his testimony in a robbery case in Honduras. Albert who had to leave Honduras because of threats, looks out at the fence that divides Mexico and the U.S."People have failed because they have gotten desperate waiting," he said."My life is in play."
The policy has been challenged in court in a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed two weeks after the first migrant was returned to Mexico. Elizabeth's case highlights how asylum-seekers can face a series of challenges under the Trump administration's immigration policies. Even before she was allowed to present herself at the port of entry in Tijuana, she was made to wait months on a list, according to her and her lawyer, under a policy known as"metering" which restricts the number of migrants allowed in to the U.S. every day.
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