Failure to Protect: Biden Administration Continues Illegal Trump Policy to Block and Expel Asylum

To its credit, the Biden administration has brought to safety more than 6,000 of the asylum seekers whom the Trump administration forced to wait indefinitely in Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy. [...] Recommendations To the Biden administration: Immediately end the use – and withdraw – the discredited CDC order and rescind the accompanying Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule; stop refouling refugee families and adults to countries of feared persecution or places where they are at risk of life-threatening harm; and direct the CDC to employ rational, evidence-based measures to safeguard. [...] The woman, who was fleeing severe domestic violence with her six-year-old daughter, had relocated to Tijuana to attempt to seek asylum at the San Ysidro port of entry, which she found closed to asylum seekers due to the Trump and Biden administrations’ misuse of Title 42. [...] A 13-year-old Honduran girl who was raped in Mexico and threatened by the rapist after she and her asylum-seeking mother reported him to the police are waiting in danger in Tijuana after CBP expelled the family to Mexico in October 2020. [...] Some loving parents might send their child to traverse Mexico alone to reach the southern border.” Yet, in many cases, it is the expulsion policy that pushes families trapped at the border and unable to seek asylum together to send children alone to safety in the United States.