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Cuban migrants, under the Remain in Mexico programme, celebrate after media announced that Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 US presidential election in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 7, 2020. Reuters pic
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WASHINGTON, Feb 13 Asylum seekers forced to remain in Mexico while their cases are being resolved in the United States will begin to be admitted into the US as of next week, President Joe Biden’s administration announced yesterday.
Biden instructed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) earlier this month to take action to end the controversial “Remain in Mexico” programme put in place by his predecessor Donald Trump.
Guatemalan police and soldiers have used tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock.
By Ana Ceballos
Josh Denmark
After one Honduran woman and her then 17-year-old daughter were “repeatedly raped” by MS-13 gang members, and later threatened with death, they fled their country and headed to the United States a country that has long adhered to international law by allowing asylum seekers to plead their case.
In August 2016, Dinora Doe and her daughter, now 18, reached the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego and tried to request asylum. But they were soon turned away by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials who “misinformed them” about their rights and denied them the chance to apply for asylum, according to a class-action lawsuit filed July 12 against the Department of Homeland Security.