MEXICO CITY: The Biden administration is urging migrants trapped in Mexico under restrictions imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump to be patient, even as the population of a refugee camp in northeastern Mexico begins to swell with hopeful asylum seekers.
On Friday, a senior aide to U.S. President Joe Biden said the administration is working on a system to process the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who have been forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era program.
“We’re reviewing now how we can process the migrants who are already in this program,” the aide, Roberta Jacobson, said on a call with reporters. “How to prioritize the people who were enrolled not only months but years ago, and above all, people who are the most vulnerable.”
Jacobson said all of those waiting in Mexico under the program, officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), will have an opportunity to present asylum claims.
The protocols, in place since 2019, have pushed more than…
