Fully End the Migrant Protection Protocols: Ensure Safety for All Subjected to Horrific Policy

The CBP officers at the port would not transport the family to court and instructed them to return the following week, but the immigration court had closed their case, according to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. [...] The woman asked a friend who had an MPP hearing on the same day to provide medical records documenting the rape to the court, but the immigration judge nevertheless ordered her removal in absentia, according to Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services. [...] ports of entry issued an order requiring the government to take immediate affirmative steps to reopen or reconsider asylum denials due to the third-country transit asylum ban for people subjected to metering prior to the implementation of the transit ban who are currently in expedited or regular removal proceedings. [...] The MPP case of a Honduran asylum seeker and her two children was terminated after CBP officers at the San Ysidro port of entry refused to allow the family to attend their hearing because CBP officers claimed the woman was sick and told her to return the following day. [...] When the couple presented at the port of entry on the date indicated on the notice, CBP informed them that their case had been terminated after their prior hearing went ahead while they were in CBP custody due to a failure of CBP agents to convey the family’s situation to the immigration court, according to the immigration attorney now assisting them.