A Humanitarian Catastrophe at the Border: One Year of the ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’

On January 28, 2020, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick posted the following on "Immingration Impact" website:

“One year ago today, a confused Honduran man seeking asylum in the United States became the first person to be turned away from the border and sent back to Mexico to await a U.S. court hearing. He would become the first of nearly 60,000 people subjected to the so-called “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP).

“Since it began last year, MPP has wreaked havoc across the border by upending the asylum process. It’s caused chaos in immigration courts, created refugee camps along the U.S.-Mexico border, and forced thousands of families and children into danger.

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