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Asylum-seekers under MPP in Nogales are stilling having to wait to be processed
UPDATE: Remain in Mexico policy change By Carmen Valencia | March 5, 2021 at 10:33 PM MST - Updated March 5 at 10:33 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - It’s been nearly two weeks after President Joe Biden ended the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, since then about 25,000 asylum-seekers along the southern border are being processed through port of entries in California and Texas.
However, that is still not the case in Nogales, AZ. For dozens of people who have waited more than a year in Mexico, they still have uncertainty of what the future holds for them.
Josefa Ramirez of Venezuela first attempted to enter the United States as an asylum seeker at the Nogales port of entry back in January 2020. She had fled her home country with her 10-year-old son after she was allegedly detained, interrogated, and beaten by government officials.
But after being held in the United States for five days and deemed to have a credible asylum claim, Ramirez was sent back to Nogales, Mexico a consequence of former President Donald Trump s Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, commonly referred to as the Remain in Mexico program. She has been in Mexico ever since, awaiting a court hearing that keeps getting rescheduled.
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