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The Biden administration recently restarted the program as required by a court order after stopping it last winter. The program, officially called Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP, sends migrants who illegally enter the U.S. to Mexico to wait until their requests for asylum are resolved in U.S. courts. Aid groups gave legal help to roughly 4,000 of about 70,000 people put into the program during the Trump administration, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. About 1% of MPP participants whose cases were decided before the pandemic began won asylum or other legal protection.
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