Commentary: Many asylum-seekers still in limbo
Will McCorkle, For the Express-News
March 7, 2021
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Asylum-seekers are blocked from entering the U.S. due Title 42, a the Donald Trump-era policy that remains in effect under President Joe Biden. The fight is on for Biden to rescind this rule.Jemal Countess /Getty Images for UndocuBlack Network
For the past year, I have been involved with an organization that works at the border camp in Matamoros, Mexico, right across from Brownsville.
I have been into the camp many times. Many of the individuals we are working with are from Central America and were part of the Migration Protection Protocol, or MPP, also known as the Remain in Mexico policy.
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President Joe Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 3, 2021
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Last week, children s author Aída Salazar, who immigrated as a young child with her parents to the U.S. from Mexico, told
The
Los Angeles Times: We have to do everything we can to minimize the destructive nature of language in the politics that s been used against immigrants to criminalize them.
The goal of removing destructive language from the federal government s lexicon has been influencing similar changes across government websites and legal documents since hours after Biden, 78, became president.