Updated on February 22, 2021 at 10:08 am
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The first small group of asylum-seekers to be allowed into the United States under the Biden administration’s recent changes came into the country Friday through a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in south San Diego County.
The asylum-seekers who will be allowed into the U.S. are waiting for courts to decide on their active immigration cases but were sent to Mexico under the Trump Administration's Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Now, instead of having to wait in Mexico while their cases are being processed, they will be allowed to wait in the U.S.