Biden to Accept Trump-era Asylum Seekers at Mexico Border
- Asylum processing will begin for 25,000 migrants in Mexico
- Applicants will be tested for virus, then released in the U.S.
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The Biden administration will begin slowly admitting into the U.S. asylum seekers who were turned away by the Trump administration under the so-called Remain in Mexico policy, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.
The estimated 25,000 migrants waiting at the southern border who have active cases under the Migrant Protection Protocols program, or MPP, will be the first processed into the U.S. Other asylum seekers, such as those who arrived once the U.S. stopped processing asylum applications at ports of entry because of the Covid-19 pandemic, must continue to wait.