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Advocates Walk Out of Virtual Meeting with White House over “Remain in Mexico” Policy

HeadlineOct 18, 2021

Immigrant justice advocates on Saturday walked out of a virtual meeting with the Biden administration to protest its plans to resume the contested Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols, by mid-November. Before leaving the meeting, advocates read a statement that said, “It is not possible to make the inhumane humane, the unfair fair, or to breathe life into a deadly program. We refuse to be complicit in deterrence-based border policies.” The move comes after the Supreme Court in August revived “Remain in Mexico.” The program forced some 70,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico in often extremely dangerous conditions.

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