BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Asylum seekers who had been forced to pursue their cases in Mexico began to arrive in the U.S. last week.
President Biden in January announced it would suspend enrollment in the previous administration’s Migration Protection Protocols program, known as MPP or the “remain in Mexico” program.
A transgender woman was one of the 27 asylum seekers with active MPP cases who arrived in Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 25. They had lived in a camp in Matamoros, a Mexican border city that is across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
Hundreds of other asylum seekers with MPP cases have arrived in Brownsville in recent days after the U.S. allowed them into the country.