WASHINGTON, USA.- The US Department of Homeland Security announced late Monday that it would end the policy of forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are resolved in court.

The announcement came after a judge lifted a court order that prevented the government from Joe Biden delete the called strategy “Stay in Mexico”.

With this policy, adopted in 2019 by former President Donald Trumptens of thousands of asylum seekers were sent Mexico until they have to appear in court in United States for your immigration hearing.

The program was seen as cruel and dangerous, leaving vulnerable people in dangerous conditions in border towns.

The policy will be obsolete “quickly and cleanly” The US agency said in a statement.

No one else will be included and those who cross the border to attend their hearings will not be sent back to Mexico, added entity.

The Migrant Protection Protocol (PPM), What is the official name of the font? “It has endemic failures, imposes unjustified human costs and diverts resources and personnel from other priority tasks to protect our borders,” he added. adds the department.

Shortly after coming to power, Biden he sought to scrap the measure as part of what he called a more humane approach to migration.

But several Republican-led states, including Texas, sued the federal government and a court in the capital ordered the policy reinstated.

The case came to Supreme Court, who determined on June 30 that Biden had the power to end the program.

Since the policy began in January 2019 until its initial suspension, at least 70,000 people have been sent to Mexico, according to the American Council on Immigration, a nonprofit founded in 1987 that advocates for immigrants.

The Trump administration argued that the policy would curb illegal immigration to United States.

During Biden’s tenure, authorities prevented the entry of more than 200,000 people who attempted to enter illegally and were turned away, either by the PPM or another border regulation enacted by the coronavirus pandemic. RB

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