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    Biden Team Unveils New Asylum System To Replace Trump's 'Remain In Mexico'

    President Biden has called his predecessor's "Remain in Mexico" program for asylum-seekers "inhumane." Next week, a new program begins, but details are still being worked out.
    by Alana Wise Feb 12, 2021 2 minutes
    A Salvadoran girl sits inside a camp for asylum-seekers on Sunday in Matamoros, Mexico, where some 600 people who left Central America have been waiting for immigration court hearings.

    Updated at 11:19 a.m. ET

    The Biden administration will begin phasing in a new asylum process on Feb. 19 for the backlog of people seeking asylum on the southern U.S. border, but Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told NPR that migrants must avoid traveling to the U.S. border while the new system gets up and running.

    Mayorkas said the new administration wanted to rollin a state of limbo for court dates.

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