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The Biden administration also announced that it would suspend enrollments to the Migration Protection Protocols, or MPP. The Trump program, originally termed "Remain in Mexico," required asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico while they await their asylum cases in the United States, leaving thousands waiting for months, even more than a year, for their cases to come up.
There are 24,250 MPP cases currently pending before immigration courts, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan project based at Syracuse University. And an estimated 1,276 people are waiting in Nogales, Sonora, for their cases to come up at the immigration court in El Paso, Texas — nearly 300 miles away.
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