Trump administration says it is reinstating 'remain in Mexico' program

WASHINGTON - The Trump medication said connected Tuesday it was reinstating the "remain successful Mexico" program, resuming an inaugural that forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to hold successful Mexico for the solution of their U.S. cases.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said successful a connection that it would restart the programme immediately, years aft it was ended by erstwhile President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency connected Monday vowing to determination up with assertive borderline information measures, including the reinstatement of "remain successful Mexico," formerly known arsenic the Migrant Protection Protocols.

Trump launched the programme successful 2019 during his archetypal word successful office. Trump officials said it would deter what they called fraudulent asylum claims, portion advocates said it enactment susceptible migrants, including families with young kids, successful danger.

Biden ended the "remain successful Mexico" programme successful 2021, arguing that migrants were being near successful squalid and unsafe conditions connected the Mexican broadside of the border. The Trump medication connected Tuesday said ineligible wrangling implicit Biden's termination of the programme near unfastened the accidental for a speedy restart. 

When asked earlier successful the time astir the anticipation of a "remain successful Mexico" restart, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said her authorities would be to the needs of migrants successful a humanitarian way, adjacent arsenic she besides pledged to repatriate overseas migrants to their location nations.