Line to exit MPP program grows to 15,000 in less than two weeks
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Mar 3, 2021 / 08:02 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Mar 3, 2021 / 08:11 PM GMT-0600
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The U.S. government estimates some 25,000 asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico could be eligible to enter the U.S. as the Biden administration rolls back the Migrant Protection Protocols program.
As of Wednesday, more than 15,000 of those already had registered to exit the MPP program, a UN official said. Just a week earlier the line was only 8,600 strong.
“We are registering people through a number of different channels. One of them is the conecta.acnur.org website that we created for this purpose, but they’re also using a telephone hotline, social media channels and our staff is also registering MPP cases in person, on-site,†said Christopher Boian, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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