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Immigrants’ rights advocates have long criticized MPP, which was created in December 2018 and implemented in January 2019 by the Trump Administration. Over 71,000 people were enrolled in MPP, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research organization at Syracuse University. Many people with few resources stayed in dangerous Mexican border cities like Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, resulting in makeshift tent encampments forming along stretches of border, sheltering hundreds of migrants in precarious conditions. Violence against migrants is common
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