Biden announces to hear asylum seekers in Mexico

U.S. President Joe Biden's government announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico for their next hearings on immigration into the United States as their business continues. The Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) declared in a press release that it would "begin phase one of a program to restore safe and orderly processing on the southwestern border. D.H.S. will process people forced to 'stay in Mexico' under the Migrant Protection Protocols (M.P.P.). About 25 000 individuals in M.P.P. still have an active business."

On February 19, the authorities admitted the first of these 25,000 asylum seekers in Mexico to an active business. Asylum seekers will be examined for COVID-19 before passing the border.

The new program will process 300 people a day at border crossings, D.H.S. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told U.S.U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) on Friday.

The moves are part of President Joe Biden's government plan to end the M.P.P., which has driven more than 65,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers across the border to wait for their U.S.U.S. court hearings, although there are far fewer Mexico.

The Trump administration launched the controversial program in 2019 as part of a wide-ranging campaign against the capacity to solicit asylum in the U.S.U.S., represented by Trump officials as fraudulent and undeserving demands. 'We identified that approximately 25,000 individuals have operational issues in the program. And we focus on giving them access to our asylum system," Mayorkas told NPR.

Mayorkas responds to those who left Mexico and replies that the U.S.U.S. has built a program with international organizations, in collaboration with Mexico's government, to build a virtual platform so that individuals who are geographically distributed in the program at a distance".

According to D.H.S., the move "should not be construed as an opening for people to migrate to the United States irregularly."