'Remain in Mexico' ends – but too late for 41,247 migrants

+ misinformation is not just a social media thing US Edition - Today's top story: Biden ends policy forcing asylum-seekers to 'remain in Mexico' – but for 41,247 migrants, it's too late [View in browser]( US Edition | 10 March 2021 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair The last people living at the Matamoros refugee camp – one of several squalid tent cities that cropped up on the Mexican side of the border in recent years – crossed the border into the United States late last week to request asylum. The emptied camp marks the end of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, which forced asylum seekers to “remain in Mexico” while their cases were considered. Over 71,000 asylum claims were processed under the Migrant Protection Protocols between January 2019 and January 2021. 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