8/25/21

“The Supreme Court’s unconscionable decision to deny the stay in the MPP case puts thousands of lives of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in immediate danger,” said Camilo Antonio Perez Bustillo, Leadership Team of Witness at the Border. “We stood vigil at the border crossing between Brownsville and Matamoros between January and March 2020 in defense of these migrants’ internationally recognized right to seek asylum, for 90 days when the MPP policy, one of the most blatant examples of the Trump administration’s cruel and illegal border and immigration policies, was at a fever pitch. The Biden Administration must act in defense of these migrants’ rights, as it has pledged to, and against the injustice that the Supreme Court has mandated. Mexican authorities must also do everything necessary to prevent the implementation of MPP, in compliance with Mexico’s own human rights obligations and laws. U.S. and Mexican authorities must collaborate to promote justice, on both sides of the border, not to undermine it.”

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