** Today, June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court allows the Biden Administration to end the inhumane Remain in Mexico policy (or MPP for Migrant "Protection" Protocols), in Biden v. Texas. **

In January 2019, the Department of Homeland Security under President Trump introduced the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), or Remain in Mexico. MPP sent people arriving at the U.S. southern border, fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, back into Mexico to wait for an asylum hearing before a U.S. immigration judge. MPP dramatically changed the processing of asylum claims in the U.S. and made it far more difficult for migrants to receive a fair and complete review of their claims as required under both U.S. and international law.

A Year of Horrors, a report by Human Rights First, documents a high level of violence against young girls and women in MPP: abductions, rape, kidnapping and extortion. Family separation has continued as desperate parents are forced to make impossible choices, sending kids alone into the U.S.

In January 2021, President Biden ended MPP in practice. The processing of those still stuck in Mexico in the system was announced on February 12. The first migrants were processed into the US from Tijuana on February 19. DHS has a new website with information on the new process, including online registration: DHS: Migrant Protection Protocols. As of March 8, the Matamoros encampment is empty.

On June 1, 2021, MPP was officially ended by the Biden Administration. Then, because of a court injunction against the Administration’s ending of MPP, the program was restarted in December 2021: The Restart of MPP is a Betrayal of President Biden’s Promises To Restore a Humane Asylum System (American Immigration Council).

On January 10, 2022, the American Immigration Council released an updated fact sheet on the "Migrant Protection Protocols" (aka Remain in Mexico), including an update on the Biden administration's restart of the program.