IN LATE January, the Trump administration deported the first group of asylum-seeking migrants as part of the recently implemented Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
Most migrants seeking asylum come from places that are hundreds of miles away from Tijuana, but the distance does nothing to insulate them from the violence, poverty and instability they had hoped to leave behind.
This policy, announced in December by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, represents the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s shameful effort to impede people from exercising their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S.
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