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What to Know: The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), the “remain in Mexico” policy for asylum-seekers.
The TPPF Take: The MPP played a critical role in averting a chaotic collapse of security along the U.S. southwest border.
“The reality is that before MPP, hundreds of thousands of people from Central America and elsewhere overwhelmed the capacities of federal border authorities and detention facilities, and gained access into the United States simply by claiming a credible fear of political persecution, even though the vast majority of them lacked a valid claim for asylum,” says TPPF’s John Hostettler. “Since the implementation of the MPP, these people and their smugglers now know that claiming a credible fear no longer results in being released into the United States, and that is what has led to the major decline we have seen in apprehensions at the border.
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