Biden to start processing asylum seekers in Mexico
Border officials are set next week to start processing asylum seekers in California and Texas who were forced back across the border under a controversial Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden pledged to end, advocates and officials said Thursday.
U.S. officials will begin next Friday allowing in and processing immigrants at ports of entry in San Ysidro, Calif., and El Paso and Brownsville, Texas, who were subjected to the "Remain in Mexico" policy, shelter directors and United Nations officials told The Times.
Before they are released into the United States, all migrants will first be given a medical screening in Mexico, including coronavirus testing, by the United Nations migration agency. Other U.N. agencies also will help process, shelter and transport migrants in Mexico to ports of
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