Asylum-seeking immigrants forced to remain in Mexico under a controversial Trump-era program will be processed for entry into Texas as soon as next Friday, setting off optimism and a scramble to safely welcome them among resettlement agencies.
Under the Biden administration initiative, as many as 300 people a day will be processed into the U.S., senior White House officials said. They had previously arrived in the U.S. to legally seek refuge before being forced to wait back in Mexico under the program called Migration Protection Protocols, also known as Remain in Mexico,
There are about 25,000 such cases pending in a program that enrolled a total of about 70,000. Mexican camps and shelters where most of them live while waiting to be summoned to the U.S. for their asylum hearings often lack adequate health care and medical supplies.