Commentary: The evidence is in: Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy puts asylum-seekers' lives at risk
by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
Sep 03, 2019
3 minutes
In the eight months since the Trump administration began implementing its euphemistically named Migrant Protection Protocols, the government has returned more than 35,000 asylum seekers to Mexico to wait out the slow legal process that will determine whether they'll be allowed to live in the U.S. or be returned to the countries they fled.
Another 18,000 are biding their time in similar conditions under a separate "metering" policy that limits the daily number of asylum
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