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The number of migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border plunged for most of 2020 due to the pandemic border closure, a Trump administration policy making asylum seekers wait in Mexico for their cases to be resolved, and stronger border enforcement on Mexico’s southern border. Most asylum seekers in recent years have been families and unaccompanied children escaping high crime and poverty in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Mr. Biden has begun to slowly let in some people who were in the Remain in Mexico program, officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols. More than 1,700 MPP-enrolled migrants have been allowed into the U.S. since February, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. More than 29,000 MPP cases are pending, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which compiles and publishes government statistics.
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