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About 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy, known officially as “Migrant Protection Protocols,” from when President Donald Trump introduced it in January 2019 until President Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021, fulfilling a campaign promise. Many were allowed to return to the United States to pursue their cases during the early months of Biden’s presidency.
In Border Patrol's El Paso Sector, more than 18,000 people were enrolled in the program and returned to Juárez, the majority in fiscal 2019 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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